Error with pip install scikit-image

Question

I am using Windows 8.1 64 bit and Python 2.7. While trying to install scikit-image from the shell

pip install scikit-image

I have encountered this error:

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in c:\users\france~1\appdata\local\temp\pip-buildtksnfe\scikit-image\

The download is fine but the installation fails. What is the problem here and how to solve it?

EDIT

After upgrading my pip with

python -m pip install -U pip setuptools

and trying again, I got:

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in c:\users\france~1\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-nbemct\scikit-image\

What is wrong?

Answer 1

install numpy first

pip install numpy

If you face installation issues for numpy, get the pre-built windows installers from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ for your python version (python version is different from windows version).

numpy 32-bit: numpy-1.11.1+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl

numpy 64-bit: numpy-1.11.1+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl

Later you require VC++ 9.0, then please get it from below link Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 is required. Get it from http://aka.ms/vcpython27

Then install

pip install scikit-image

It will install below list before installing scikit-image

pyparsing, six, python-dateutil, pytz, cycler, matplotlib, scipy, decorator, networkx, pillow, toolz, dask

If it fails at installation of scipy, follow below steps: get the pre-built windows installers from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ for your python version (python version is different from windows version).

Scipy 32-bit: scipy-0.18.0-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl

Scipy 64-bit: scipy-0.18.0-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl

If it fails saying whl is not supported wheel on this platform , then upgrade pip using python -m pip install --upgrade pip and try installing scipy

Now try

pip install scikit-image

It should work like a charm.