ERROR: Failed to build 'pyyaml' when getting requirements to build wheel

[RigelFernandes]

Hello there!

Anyone else had this problem when trying to install mediapipe-model-maker (first cell)

!python --version
!pip install --upgrade pip
!pip install mediapipe-model-maker

The output:

Python 3.12.12
Requirement already satisfied: pip in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (24.1.2)
Collecting pip
Downloading pip-25.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.7 kB)
Downloading pip-25.3-py3-none-any.whl (1.8 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1.8/1.8 MB 31.6 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing collected packages: pip
Attempting uninstall: pip
Found existing installation: pip 24.1.2
Uninstalling pip-24.1.2:
Successfully uninstalled pip-24.1.2
Successfully installed pip-25.3
Collecting mediapipe-model-maker
Downloading mediapipe_model_maker-0.2.1.4-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.7 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: absl-py in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from mediapipe-model-maker) (1.4.0)
Collecting mediapipe>=0.10.0 (from mediapipe-model-maker)
Downloading mediapipe-0.10.21-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl.metadata (9.7 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: numpy in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from mediapipe-model-maker) (2.0.2)
Requirement already satisfied: opencv-python in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from mediapipe-model-maker) (4.12.0.88)
INFO: pip is looking at multiple versions of mediapipe-model-maker to determine which version is compatible with other requirements. This could take a while.
Collecting mediapipe-model-maker
Downloading mediapipe_model_maker-0.2.1.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.6 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: tensorflow>=2.10 in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from mediapipe-model-maker) (2.19.0)
Downloading mediapipe_model_maker-0.2.1.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.6 kB)
Downloading mediapipe_model_maker-0.2.1.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.6 kB)
Downloading mediapipe_model_maker-0.2.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.6 kB)
Downloading mediapipe_model_maker-0.2.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.5 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: tensorflow-datasets in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from mediapipe-model-maker) (4.9.9)
Requirement already sERROR: Failed to build 'pyyaml' when getting requirements to build wheelatisfied: tensorflow-hub in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from mediapipe-model-maker) (0.16.1)
Collecting tf-models-official==2.11.6 (from mediapipe-model-maker)
Downloading tf_models_official-2.11.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.5 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: Cython in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from tf-models-official==2.11.6->mediapipe-model-maker) (3.0.12)
Requirement already satisfied: Pillow in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from tf-models-official==2.11.6->mediapipe-model-maker) (11.3.0)
Requirement already satisfied: gin-config in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from tf-models-official==2.11.6->mediapipe-model-maker) (0.5.0)
Requirement already satisfied: google-api-python-client>=1.6.7 in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from tf-models-official==2.11.6->mediapipe-model-maker) (2.187.0)
Requirement already satisfied: immutabledict in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from tf-models-official==2.11.6->mediapipe-model-maker) (4.2.2)
Requirement already satisfied: kaggle>=1.3.9 in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from tf-models-official==2.11.6->mediapipe-model-maker) (1.7.4.5)
Requirement already satisfied: matplotlib in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from tf-models-official==2.11.6->mediapipe-model-maker) (3.10.0)
Requirement already satisfied: oauth2client in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from tf-models-official==2.11.6->mediapipe-model-maker) (4.1.3)
Requirement already satisfied: opencv-python-headless in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from tf-models-official==2.11.6->mediapipe-model-maker) (4.12.0.88)
Requirement already satisfied: pandas>=0.22.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from tf-models-official==2.11.6->mediapipe-model-maker) (2.2.2)
Requirement already satisfied: psutil>=5.4.3 in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from tf-models-official==2.11.6->mediapipe-model-maker) (5.9.5)
Requirement already satisfied: py-cpuinfo>=3.3.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from tf-models-official==2.11.6->mediapipe-model-maker) (9.0.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pycocotools in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages (from tf-models-official==2.11.6->mediapipe-model-maker) (2.0.10)
Collecting pyyaml<6.0,>=5.1 (from tf-models-official==2.11.6->mediapipe-model-maker)
Downloading PyYAML-5.4.1.tar.gz (175 kB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> No available output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
ERROR: Failed to build 'pyyaml' when getting requirements to build wheel

[prath-pk]

Hi @RigelFernandes
Yes, I am also facing the same issue while installing mediapipe-model-maker. Were you able to find any solutions?
I was not able to find any solutions.

[jchwenger]

Encountered the same issue. The official notebook (from the customization documentation) can no longer be run for that reason...

[bobomobo1]

Downgrading my python worked for me:

!sudo apt-get install python3.10 python3.10-distutils python3.10-venv -y
!wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
!python3.10 get-pip.py
!python3.10 -m pip install mediapipe-model-maker