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I am trying to use this code from github.

The first three commands to get this started are: 

pip install bitfinex

bitfinex-poll-orderbook

pip install -r ./requirements.txt

The first two work perfectly fine and I am able see the orderbook for Bitfinex, a bitcoin trading exchange. When I put the third line I get the following error 

Could not open requirements file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: './requirements.txt'

What can I do to fix this?

esaunde1
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    run the command from inside the project folder where requirements.txt exists – Jeremy Dec 12 '15 at 00:46
  • Okay, so [do you know what does it do?](https://pip.readthedocs.org/en/1.1/requirements.html) I think `pip install bitfinex` command can auto install the requirements. Also I think you didn't download the project via git or browser, so there's no `requirements.txt`. If `pip` didn't install that, you could find it in the project folder on Github [here](https://github.com/scottjbarr/bitfinex/blob/develop/requirements.txt) – Remi Guan Dec 12 '15 at 00:47
  • when I run pip install bitfinex it says my requirements are already satisfied and are in the appropriate locations – esaunde1 Dec 12 '15 at 00:49
  • how did you fix it, I got the same issue although I run pip install -r requirements.txt from the same folder – user1314404 Jun 27 '21 at 14:03

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You should run that only from a clone of the repository, and only if you want to do development of that library.

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  • this helped but I still have another error. Command "/usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/tmp/pip-build-AUyHaP/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-t_Dx3j-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip-build-AUyHaP/lxml – esaunde1 Dec 12 '15 at 00:56
  • The file is requiring `lxml==3.3.1`, but it isn't available in the PyPI anymore. You'll need to get it from somewhere else... Or try changing the `requirements.txt` file – memoselyk Dec 12 '15 at 01:00
  • I downloaded that fire and still had an error Command "/usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/zl/ny6y70vn3lb22pyz9cxl75j80000gn/T/pip-build-oPRVYA/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/zl/ny6y70vn3lb22pyz9cxl75j80000gn/T/pip-O7ugup-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/zl/ny6y70vn3lb22pyz9cxl75j80000gn/T/pip-build-oPRVYA/lxml – esaunde1 Dec 12 '15 at 01:05
  • [This](https://github.com/lxml/lxml) is the repository, but you'll need to find the commit yourself – memoselyk Dec 12 '15 at 01:07
  • where do I place that folder? – esaunde1 Dec 12 '15 at 01:10