`Building wheel for opencv-python (PEP 517) ... -` runs forever

Question

When I run

!pip install imgaug==0.4.0

the following is the output

Collecting imgaug==0.4.0
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/66/b1/af3142c4a85cba6da9f4ebb5ff4e21e2616309552caca5e8acefe9840622/imgaug-0.4.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Requirement already satisfied: Pillow in /opt/conda/envs/Python-3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from imgaug==0.4.0) (5.4.1)
Requirement already satisfied: numpy>=1.15 in /opt/conda/envs/Python-3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from imgaug==0.4.0) (1.15.4)
Collecting Shapely (from imgaug==0.4.0)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/9d/18/557d4f55453fe00f59807b111cc7b39ce53594e13ada88e16738fb4ff7fb/Shapely-1.7.1-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
Requirement already satisfied: six in /opt/conda/envs/Python-3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from imgaug==0.4.0) (1.12.0)
Requirement already satisfied: matplotlib in /opt/conda/envs/Python-3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from imgaug==0.4.0) (3.0.2)
Collecting scikit-image>=0.14.2 (from imgaug==0.4.0)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/0e/ba/53e1bfbdfd0f94514d71502e3acea494a8b4b57c457adbc333ef386485da/scikit_image-0.17.2-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
Requirement already satisfied: imageio in /opt/conda/envs/Python-3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from imgaug==0.4.0) (2.4.1)
Collecting opencv-python (from imgaug==0.4.0)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/77/f5/49f034f8d109efcf9b7e98fbc051878b83b2f02a1c73f92bbd37f317288e/opencv-python-4.4.0.42.tar.gz
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
    Preparing wheel metadata ... done
Requirement already satisfied: scipy in /opt/conda/envs/Python-3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from imgaug==0.4.0) (1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: cycler>=0.10 in /opt/conda/envs/Python-3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from matplotlib->imgaug==0.4.0) (0.10.0)
Requirement already satisfied: kiwisolver>=1.0.1 in /opt/conda/envs/Python-3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from matplotlib->imgaug==0.4.0) (1.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: pyparsing!=2.0.4,!=2.1.2,!=2.1.6,>=2.0.1 in /opt/conda/envs/Python-3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from matplotlib->imgaug==0.4.0) (2.3.1)
Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil>=2.1 in /opt/conda/envs/Python-3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from matplotlib->imgaug==0.4.0) (2.7.5)
Collecting tifffile>=2019.7.26 (from scikit-image>=0.14.2->imgaug==0.4.0)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3c/13/4f873f6b167c2e77288ce8db1c9f742d1e0e1463644e2df4e3bd3c40a422/tifffile-2020.8.25-py3-none-any.whl
Requirement already satisfied: networkx>=2.0 in /opt/conda/envs/Python-3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from scikit-image>=0.14.2->imgaug==0.4.0) (2.2)
Collecting PyWavelets>=1.1.1 (from scikit-image>=0.14.2->imgaug==0.4.0)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/59/bb/d2b85265ec9fa3c1922210c9393d4cdf7075cc87cce6fe671d7455f80fbc/PyWavelets-1.1.1-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /opt/conda/envs/Python-3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from kiwisolver>=1.0.1->matplotlib->imgaug==0.4.0) (40.8.0)
Requirement already satisfied: decorator>=4.3.0 in /opt/conda/envs/Python-3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from networkx>=2.0->scikit-image>=0.14.2->imgaug==0.4.0) (4.3.2)
Building wheels for collected packages: opencv-python
  Building wheel for opencv-python (PEP 517) ... -

But the Building wheel for opencv-python (PEP 517) ... - runs forever, how to resolve this problem?

Solution 1

i had the same problem, everything worked out:

pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel

Solution 2

Solve by install openCV-Python explicitly first using !pip install opencv-python==4.2.0.34 before running !pip install imgaug As the older version of opencv-python doesn't require wheel compilation.

Solution 3

It happened to me as well while i was downloading pip install opencv-python Just go to the preferences, go to python interpreter and then check for the wheels package and delete it by clicking on it and pressing the minus mark next to the add mark. This error comes because to download it, the package should first build thousands of dependencies for wheels as opencv is a big package. If you uninstall wheels then they don't have to build dependencies. Note that uninstalling wheels won't affect anything in the code. I have a mac and use pycharm as the IDE so, i am not sure whether it works on other devices.

This is a image of the the interpreter that is after uninstalling wheels