What does Failed building wheel for Pillow mean?

Question

I don't understand what this error 'Failed building wheel for Pillow' means? I just wanted to install easyocr, but it gives me an error, I tried to find a solution to the problem on the Internet but could not find it. Help me solve this problem, I will be very grateful

pip install easyocr    

 

Answer 1

Try doing pip install -U pip

This will upgrade the version of pip in your system. Sometimes, the latest version of a python package that you are trying to install is not compatible with the pip version installed in the system.

The above command will update your pip and once that is done, you can try running the command pip install easyocr once again.

Let me know if this helped!!

If this did not help, please let me know whether you are on a windows machine or a linux machine.

If you are on an Ubuntu machine then you probably have to redo the steps that I mentioned using pip3 instead of pip.