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Can't install vowpalwabbit via pip in Windows

I am trying to install vowpalwabbit by using pip in Windows.
My python version is 3.7. As I am new in using vowpalwabbit, it is possible that I forget to configure some external dependencies. Therefore, can you please explain every single the step to make it work. I got the following error when I run the following:
pip install vowpalwabbit
raise Exception('Pre-built vw/python library for Windows is not supported for this python version')
Exception: Pre-built vw/python library for Windows is not supported for this python version```
----------------------------------------
Command "C:\Users\I516\Documents\Newsfeed\venv\Scripts\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\I336\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-3tgy0rvf\\vowpalw
abbit\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\I336\AppDa
ta\Local\Temp\pip-record-o5qdntld\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers C:\Users\I336\Documents\Newsfeed\venv\include\site\python3.7\vowp
alwabbit" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\I336\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-3tgy0rvf\vowpalwabbit\```

A new version of vowpalwabbit (8.7.0) was released to PyPI last week. In addition, binary wheels for 64-bit Python 3.6/3.7 are available for Windows.
If you're using the 64-bit version of Python (or can switch to using it):
pip install vowpalwabbit
should work properly without any additional dependencies

Getting a permission denied error when installing flask with pip

I tried to run pip install flask on Arch Linux and I get the following error:
Collecting itsdangerous>=0.24 (from flask)
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/dc/b4/a60bcdba945c00f6d608d8975131ab3f25b22f2bcfe1dab221165194b2d4/itsdangerous-0.24.tar.gz
Collecting MarkupSafe>=0.23 (from Jinja2>=2.10->flask)
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/4d/de/32d741db316d8fdb7680822dd37001ef7a448255de9699ab4bfcbdf4172b/MarkupSafe-1.0.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: Werkzeug, click, MarkupSafe, Jinja2, itsdangerous, flask
Running setup.py install for MarkupSafe ... done
Running setup.py install for itsdangerous ... error
Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-9u23zlnf/itsdangerous/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-r51zrnnv-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib
copying itsdangerous.py -> build/lib
running install_lib
copying build/lib/itsdangerous.py -> /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages
byte-compiling /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/itsdangerous.py to itsdangerous.cpython-36.pyc
error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/itsdangerous.cpython-36.pyc.140591598548528'
----------------------------------------
Command "/usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-9u23zlnf/itsdangerous/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-r51zrnnv-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-9u23zlnf/itsdangerous/
You are using pip version 9.0.1, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.`
What does this error mean?

Use
pip install --user flask
instead.
You are getting a Permission Denied error which means that you don't have access to write to a specific location.
When you are using pip install flask, pip will try to install the package flask somewhere in /usr/lib/python3.6/../. This directory requires root access something you don't have at the time you were running pip install flask.
By using the --user flag, you are telling pip to install the package to your home directory which does not require root permissions.
It's always a good practice to install Python packages using the --user flag because you are not installing that package system-wide. When you use sudo pip install package_name then you are installing/upgrading a package (with dependencies) system-wide. Python in some systems power-up critical system components, forcing the system to install a new version of a package might break some critical system component. Usually, systems are stuck to a specific package version just to support backwards-compatibility, you might break this if you try to install it as a sudo.

ERROR: Can not perform a '--user' install. User site-packages are not visible in this virtualenv.

Error when installing cmake for python windows

I have windows 10 and fresh Python 3.6.1.
I was trying to install package Cmake 0.6.0 (needed for another package, atari-py) using
pip install cmake
but I'm getting an error.
I have these packages installed: pip,scikit-build, setuptools, wheel, pybdist.
I do have a foreign symbol in my account name (lesson learnt), but it works fine when installing other packages. I am not a skilled windows administrator.
Collecting cmake
Using cached cmake-0.6.0.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: cmake
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for cmake: started
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for cmake: finished with status 'error'
Complete output from command C:\Python\Python36-32\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Čejkis\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pycharm-packaging1\\cmake\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d C:\Users\EJKIS~1\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp3br7eri7pip-wheel- --python-tag cp36:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\skbuild\setuptools_wrap.py", line 405, in setup
cmkr = cmaker.CMaker()
File "C:\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\skbuild\cmaker.py", line 67, in __init__
"Problem with the CMake installation, aborting build.")
Problem with the CMake installation, aborting build.
----------------------------------------
Running setup.py clean for cmake
Failed to build cmake
Installing collected packages: cmake
Running setup.py install for cmake: started
Running setup.py install for cmake: finished with status 'error'
Complete output from command C:\Python\Python36-32\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Čejkis\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pycharm-packaging1\\cmake\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\EJKIS~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-5ql_x35g-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\skbuild\setuptools_wrap.py", line 405, in setup
cmkr = cmaker.CMaker()
File "C:\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\skbuild\cmaker.py", line 67, in __init__
"Problem with the CMake installation, aborting build.")
Problem with the CMake installation, aborting build.
----------------------------------------
Failed building wheel for cmake
Command "C:\Python\Python36-32\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Čejkis\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pycharm-packaging1\\cmake\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\EJKIS~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-5ql_x35g-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Čejkis\AppData\Local\Temp\pycharm-packaging1\cmake\

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
and then you can run
pip3 install cmake
This works for me on Pyhton 3.8

if the above answers of pip3 or pip install cmake don't work try
sudo apt-get install cmake

As of today, CMake wheels for python 3.6 are available and pip install cmake is expected to work.
Background
At the time of your first post, there were no wheels for python 3.6, pip was rightfully trying to build the wheel using the source distribution.
Considering that:
the project allowing to generate a CMake wheel itself depends on scikit-build and cmake
we simply repackage the existing binaries into the windows wheels
... you got the general error message Problem with the CMake installation, aborting build.
References:
http://cmake-python-distributions.readthedocs.io
http://scikit-build.readthedocs.io/
Installing atari-py on windows
Looking at the documentation and open pull requests of the corresponding project, it look like windows is not supported. See https://github.com/openai/atari-py
If you would like to help the project and improve their windows support, let me know and I could try to give you some guidance to create a pull request and simplify their build system.

Eventually I installed cmake 0.8 from a binary file from their webpage.
I originally wanted to install package atari-py that needed cmake. I downloaded that from git and in cmd with administrator rights I ran
python install setup.py
which worked.
python setup.py install
still didn't work. Unfortunately I can't give any further explanation.

I just downloaded VS Code with C++ libraries and that did the trick, I was able to install CMake. (I was on Windows 10 btw)

pip install fails with "no such option: --no-deps"

I'm trying to install my own Python package into a Python2.7 virtual environment on Windows, but I get
Installed c:\users\niklas\repos\ppy\engine
Error: no such option: --no-deps
----------------------------------------
Command "c:\users\niklas\repos\ppy\engine\.env2\scripts\python.exe -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\niklas\\repos\\ppy\\engine\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" develop --no-deps" failed with error code 2 in C:\Users\niklas\repos\ppy\engine\
This does not happen when I do a normal installation (no -e flag). I've been checking the Pip and setuptools release notes, but it says nowhere the that a --no-deps option was removed.
I also added a print to my setup.py before setup() is called to print sys.argv which gives me
['-c', 'develop', '--no-deps']
so it must be setup() that is complaining. I also don't get this error when installing into a Python 3.5 virtual environment.
pip 9.0.1 from c:\users\niklas\repos\ppy\engine.env2\lib\site-packages (python 2.7)
setuptools 34.3.1
Edit: As it turns out, the normal installation also doesn't work but then it's the --record flag that is not recognized.
Installing node.py-script.py script to c:\users\niklas\repos\ppy\engine\.env2\Scripts
Installing node.py.exe script to c:\users\niklas\repos\ppy\engine\.env2\Scripts
Installing node.py.exe.manifest script to c:\users\niklas\repos\ppy\engine\.env2\Scripts
writing list of installed files to 'c:\users\niklas\appdata\local\temp\pip-okk7gy-record\install-record.txt'
Error: no such option: --record

I really don't want to necro this thread but after I have seen many suggestions this worked for me:
installation dir => python.exe -m pip install -U pip

Installing beautifulsoup4 on Fedora 19

I'm trying to install python module called, beautifulsoup4 on Fedora 19 using this command:
pip install beautifulsoup4
But terminal returns me an error:
Downloading/unpacking beautifulsoup4
Running setup.py egg_info for package beautifulsoup4
Installing collected packages: beautifulsoup4
Running setup.py install for beautifulsoup4
error: could not create '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bs4': Permission denied
Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-misha/beautifulsoup4/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-kevEjw-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed:
running install
running build
running build_py
running install_lib
creating /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bs4
error: could not create '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bs4': Permission denied
----------------------------------------
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-misha/beautifulsoup4/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-kevEjw-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-misha/beautifulsoup4
Storing complete log in /home/misha/.pip/pip.log
How can I fix that?
Thanks.

You have not rights to install the library. If you are into sudoers you should type:
sudo pip install beautifulsoup4
If you don't have rights to install anything, then you can use [virtualenv][1] to create your working environment and install all the stuff you need.

sudo dnf install python-beautifulsoup4