Python dependency error modules has requirement which is incompatible.

John D K -

Quick and dirty solution for pip dependency errors is:

pip install --upgrade pymysql --ignore-installed pyasn1

The errors are:

pyasn1-modules 0.2.1 has requirement pyasn1<0.5.0,>=0.4.1, but you'll have pyasn1 0.1.9 which is incompatible.

is extremely often when you are trying to install new module, updating or upgrading pip and so on.

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In this post we will see a quick and easy solution for this error. The solution is to ignore dependencies in case that you don't need them or you don't care about dependencies.

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Quick solution for incompatible modules

Let say that I need to install: pymysql with pip:

pip install pymysql

Entering the command I get this error:

pyasn1-modules 0.2.1 has requirement pyasn1<0.5.0,>=0.4.1, but you'll have pyasn1 0.1.9 which is incompatible.

Trying to update, uninstall or upgrade the module ends in another error:

Cannot uninstall 'pyasn1'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.

So in order to install pymysql you can ignore pyasn1 as dependency. This can be done with command:

pip install --upgrade pymysql --ignore-installed pyasn1

this result in:

Installing collected packages: pymysql, pyasn1
Successfully installed pyasn1-0.4.2 pymysql-0.8.0

Uninstalling and Reinstall modules with pip

Let say that this time module idna is causing the same problem. Then you can uninstall it and reinstalled by:

pip uninstall idna
pip install idna

you may need also to upgrade your pip:

pip install --upgrade  pip