# Rasa Installation Problem

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/rasa-installation-problem/59781>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [September 29, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/rasa-installation-problem/59781 "2023-09-29T16:40:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/rasa-installation-problem/59781/1 "2023-09-29T16:40:29Z")

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I Have my pip3 version as pip 22.3.1 and Python version as Python 3.11.3. I have created a virtual environment according to the guidelines in official docs and tried out the command :

> > > pip3 install rasa

I get the following error : Collecting rasa Using cached rasa-1.10.2-py3-none-any.whl (510 kB) Collecting PyJWT\<1.8,\>=1.7 (from rasa) Using cached PyJWT-1.7.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (18 kB) Collecting SQLAlchemy\<1.4.0,\>=1.3.3 (from rasa) Using cached SQLAlchemy-1.3.24.tar.gz (6.4 MB) Installing build dependencies … done Getting requirements to build wheel … done Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) … done Collecting absl-py\<0.10,\>=0.9 (from rasa) Using cached absl-py-0.9.0.tar.gz (104 kB) Installing build dependencies … done Getting requirements to build wheel … error error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─\> [20 lines of output] Traceback (most recent call last): File “E:\Programming files\RASA\venv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject\_hooks\_in\_process\_in\_process.py”, line 353, in main() File “E:\Programming files\RASA\venv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject\_hooks\_in\_process\_in\_process.py”, line 335, in main json\_out[‘return\_val’] = hook(\*\*hook\_input[‘kwargs’]) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File “E:\Programming files\RASA\venv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject\_hooks\_in\_process\_in\_process.py”, line 118, in get\_requires\_for\_build\_wheel return hook(config\_settings) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File “C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-k22kwm68\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build\_meta.py”, line 355, in get\_requires\_for\_build\_wheel return self.\_get\_build\_requires(config\_settings, requirements=[‘wheel’]) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File “C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-k22kwm68\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build\_meta.py”, line 325, in \_get\_build\_requires self.run\_setup() File “C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-k22kwm68\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build\_meta.py”, line 507, in run\_setup super(\_BuildMetaLegacyBackend, self).run\_setup(setup\_script=setup\_script) File “C:\Users\Lenovo\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-k22kwm68\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build\_meta.py”, line 341, in run\_setup exec(code, locals()) File “”, line 34, in RuntimeError: Python version 2.7 or 3.4+ is required. [end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─\> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

Can anyone help me resolve this issue?