Unable to install packages in Google Cloud Datalab

Question

I have been trying to insatll 'svmutil' on Google Datalab using the following command -

 %bash

 pip install svmutil

I am getting the following error -

Collecting svmutil
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement svmutil (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for svmutil

​What can be the solution?

Answer 1

The svmutil package does not appear to exist on PyPi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/svmutil

Is this a local package? If so you'll need to pass the path of the library tarball into pip instead of just the name.