ERROR: Cannot uninstall 'ruamel-yaml'. 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

this error happens while trying to install rasa version 2.0.0rc2 using command [pip3 install rasa==2.0.0rc2]

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Install using this pip install rasa --ignore-installed ruamel.yaml

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I have tried with" pip install rasa --ignore-installed ruamel.yaml --user" command, Still i am facing below error ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: ‘C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\_cffi_backend.cp38-win_amd64.pyd’ Check the permissions. please help me to resolve this issue. thanks, subbu.

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same error even i am receiving

I have done these steps and successfully installed in my Windows 10 OS.

  • Download python 3.6.8

Then open anaconda prompt in run as administrator and type

  1. pip install virtualenv
  2. virtualenv -p 3.6.8 rasaenv
  3. .\rasaenv\Scripts\activate
  4. pip install rasa --ignore-installed ruamel.yaml

i am facing this issue while installing rasa-x. tell me the solution

running the command rasa x should still work

if you look at the rasa x video on youtube

pip install rasa --user --ignore-installed ruamel.yaml resolved the issue for me

Great! Solved my problem

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for me pip install rasa --user --ignore-installed ruamel.yaml and pip install rasar --ignore-installed ruamel.yaml did not work.

I suggest doing manually.

rm -rf /path/to/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ruamel*