Cannot install transformers version 4.11.1
I’m constantly getting the following error log while trying to install previous transformers version. Please helpCollecting transformers==4.11.1
  Downloading transformers-4.11.1-py3-none-any.whl (2.9 MB)
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Requirement already satisfied: filelock in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from transformers==4.11.1) (3.12.4)
Collecting huggingface-hub>=0.0.17 (from transformers==4.11.1)
  Downloading huggingface_hub-0.17.3-py3-none-any.whl (295 kB)
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Requirement already satisfied: numpy>=1.17 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from transformers==4.11.1) (1.23.5)
Requirement already satisfied: packaging>=20.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from transformers==4.11.1) (23.1)
Requirement already satisfied: pyyaml>=5.1 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from transformers==4.11.1) (6.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: regex!=2019.12.17 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from transformers==4.11.1) (2023.6.3)
Requirement already satisfied: requests in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from transformers==4.11.1) (2.31.0)
Collecting sacremoses (from transformers==4.11.1)
  Downloading sacremoses-0.0.53.tar.gz (880 kB)
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  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Collecting tokenizers<0.11,>=0.10.1 (from transformers==4.11.1)
  Downloading tokenizers-0.10.3.tar.gz (212 kB)
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  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Requirement already satisfied: tqdm>=4.27 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from transformers==4.11.1) (4.66.1)
Requirement already satisfied: fsspec in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from huggingface-hub>=0.0.17->transformers==4.11.1) (2023.6.0)
Requirement already satisfied: typing-extensions>=3.7.4.3 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from huggingface-hub>=0.0.17->transformers==4.11.1) (4.5.0)
Requirement already satisfied: charset-normalizer<4,>=2 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from requests->transformers==4.11.1) (3.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<4,>=2.5 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from requests->transformers==4.11.1) (3.4)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3<3,>=1.21.1 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from requests->transformers==4.11.1) (2.0.5)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2017.4.17 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from requests->transformers==4.11.1) (2023.7.22)
Requirement already satisfied: six in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from sacremoses->transformers==4.11.1) (1.16.0)
Requirement already satisfied: click in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from sacremoses->transformers==4.11.1) (8.1.7)
Requirement already satisfied: joblib in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from sacremoses->transformers==4.11.1) (1.3.2)
Building wheels for collected packages: tokenizers, sacremoses
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Building wheel for tokenizers (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> See above for output.
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  Building wheel for tokenizers (pyproject.toml) ... error
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for tokenizers
  Building wheel for sacremoses (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for sacremoses: filename=sacremoses-0.0.53-py3-none-any.whl size=895241 sha256=472a160797137fe68d62d47b597f65bfefba2defadba9ca32505576e98a2ee2c
  Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/00/24/97/a2ea5324f36bc626e1ea0267f33db6aa80d157ee977e9e42fb
Successfully built sacremoses
Failed to build tokenizers
ERROR: Could not build wheels for tokenizers, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
2023-10-06T09:20:23Z
I think the issue is because of the Python version. Try downgrading/upgrading to Python 3.8 and installing again.