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I attempted to use fbprophet for time series analysis using Python.

I ran from fbprophet import Prophet but got No module named 'fbprophet'

I think fbprophet is not part of packages that comes with anaconda distribution

I went ahead to install fbprophet but got this error message No module named 'fbprophet'

I am on Windows 10, 64 bits

I install anaconda distribution of anaconda 3.7

I have ran conda install -c conda-forge fbprophet and conda install -c conda-forge/label/cf201901 fbprophet on my anaconda prompt which it rolled endlessly

I have also ran pip install fbprohet which did not work as well

I ran pip list which worked but prophet or fbprophet not among the list

I have searched this site for relevant questions and tried all what I clues I got in it but did not work for me.

Gonçalo Peres
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Option 1

conda install -n [NameOfVEnv] -c conda-forge fbprophet

Where -c stands for "channel" which is

the locations where Navigator and conda look for packages. (Source)

and -n for "Name of environment".

I just tried here (on CentOS 7) and it worked fine.

Option 2

An alternative, if one is using Windows 10, is to access Anaconda Prompt for the environment that you are working with as admin:

Access Anaconda Prompt as admin

And run

conda install -c conda-forge fbprophet

I just tried here (on Windows 10 64-bit) and it worked fine.

Option 3

Prophet is on PyPI, so you can use pip to install it (Source)

# bash
# Install pystan with pip before using pip to install fbprophet
$ pip install pystan
$
$ pip install fbprophet

You may need to install dependencies (in both options), but it asks you in the prompt window. If it appears, you will need to enter Y.

Gonçalo Peres
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I installed this way:

pip install pystan==2.19.1.1

then:

pip install prophet

It seems that currently pystan version 3 is not working properly. (Tested on MacOS)

Matthew Fedoseev
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You can check this official github link where the detailed steps for installation is given. This library is supported only in Python 3.

Open cmd, run this command -

pip install pystan==2.19.1.1

Then run this-

pip install prophet
Alex Waygood
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Radhika Shenoy
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First install

    pip install httpstan`

Then Install

    pip install pystan

Then Install

    pip install fbprophet
Pratik Patil
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I had the same issue, but none of the answers mentioned here worked (Windows 10 machine). What worked was the following:

conda config --add channels conda-forge
conda install anaconda

Above step took almost 25 hours for me. Do above only if you get this error "The environment is inconsistent, please check the package plan carefully"

pip install pystan==2.19.1.1
conda install python=3.8 (fbprophet did not work on Python 3.9)
conda install numpy=1.19.0
conda install fbprophet=0.7.1
Sarvavyapi
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you just search the wrong letter, please enter pip search fbprophet,in the way, i can get two

Tom.chen.kang
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  • wow! `fbprophet (0.4.post2) - Automatic Forecasting Procedure fbprophet-headless (0.2.1) - Automatic Forecasting` and `Procedure - Fork to support headless` are what I got. Does that mean `fbprophet` is istalled? if yes, why am I getting `No module named 'fbprophet'` as error message when I ran `from fbprophet import Prophet` on jupyter? – economia Mar 09 '19 at 15:41
  • @economia you can 'pip install fbprophet' to install the module, after install the module, you can use 'from fbprophet import Prophet' – Tom.chen.kang Mar 11 '19 at 01:25
  • `Failed building wheel for ephem` that is the error message I got when I `pip install fbprophet` – economia Mar 11 '19 at 07:42
  • error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/ – economia Mar 11 '19 at 07:48
  • @economia python work on windows need to install visual studio, it's really hard, beacuse when we install some python module we need the base of visual studio – Tom.chen.kang Mar 11 '19 at 13:35
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fbprophet did not work on Python 3.9 It is a very important information, after downgrading Python from 3.9 to 3.8, I use 'conda install fbprophet' install fbprophet successfully

Dong Wang
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Use conda install gcc to set up gcc. The easiest way to install Prophet is through conda-forge: conda install -c conda-forge prophet.

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