Why does pip install not work for catboost?

Question

I have to install catboost but can not make it by pip install catboost.

There is not catboost library in Anaconda, so pip in the one way.

The error message is:

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement catboost <for version: >
No matching distribution found for catboost.

Python version is 3.6.3.

Screenshot of error:

error message

I've tried :

pip install catboost==0.12.2
pip install catboost==0.12.1.1
pip install catboost==0.12.1
pip install catboost==0.12.0

and

pip install catboost==0.11.0
pip install catboost==0.10.2

None of these works.

Why does this problem appeared and is there another way to install catboost?

What bit version of python are you using? Chances are its 32 — Edeki Okoh, Feb 08 '19 at 18:58
I ran into the same issue with Python version 3.11.0. The issue was fixed with Python version 3.9.13. — Animesh Kumar, Feb 09 '23 at 15:50
@AlonSamuel catboost does not yet support `python 3.11.2`. https://pypi.org/project/catboost/#files — Vojtěch Chvojka, Apr 06 '23 at 12:14

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 08 '19 at 19:03

6

From the docs

Installation is only supported by the 64-bit version of Python.

You need to reinstall the 64 bit version of python to use the cat boost package

answered Feb 08 '19 at 19:03

Edeki Okoh

1,786
15
27

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered May 27 '21 at 13:05

I had the same problem but it was mainly related to Docker because the error was only occurring when I was trying to install it through a docker - it turned out there is something related to M1 Apple architecture and the solution was to modify the docker command as following

docker buildx build --platform=linux/amd64 -t ${IMAGE_TAG} -f Dockerfile

William Ashford · Answer 3 · 2023-01-04T20:38:36.047

4

For me the issue was I was developing on an M1 Mac. Trying to install as root, using conda and using docker images were all unsuccessful.

The fix I found was using the amd64 docker image as my base. The dockerfile code was:

FROM amd64/python:3.9-buster

RUN pip install -U pip
RUN pip install --upgrade setuptools
RUN pip install catboost

Can't exactly remember how I arrived at the above code, but thanks to https://github.com/prabodh1194 for putting this together. A dockerfile with this code can be found here (as of 25NOV2021) https://github.com/prabodh1194/docker_images/blob/main/catboost/0.26/Dockerfile

edited Jan 04 '23 at 20:38

answered Nov 25 '21 at 15:51

William Ashford

86
3

@Willian Ashform you said using arm64 but then posted a dockerfile with amd64 did you mean arm64/python:3.9-buster – eran otzap Dec 27 '22 at 18:42
Apologies, typo! Edited. – William Ashford Jan 04 '23 at 20:39
actually docker on arm knows how to emulate amd. so this would also work – eran otzap Jan 07 '23 at 16:26

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 01 '21 at 06:27

1

in my case, a virtual environment was using an old version of pip and a simple upgrade of pip worked!

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

answered Dec 01 '21 at 06:27

Tom Wattley

469
6
8

Why does pip install not work for catboost?

4 Answers4

Linked