Trying to install torch fails

[sachit-menon]

Thanks for the great project! First time using uv, trying out my typical first install in a fresh conda environment. The same command nominally works with pip.

conda create -n test python=3.10

Command run:

uv pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118

Error message:

error: Failed to download and build: lit==15.0.7
  Caused by: Failed to build: lit==15.0.7
  Caused by: Failed to install requirements from setup.py build (resolve)
  Caused by: No solution found when resolving: wheel, setuptools >=40.8.0
  Caused by: Because wheel was not found in the package registry and you require wheel, we can conclude that the requirements are unsatisfiable.

Platform: Linux
uv version: 0.1.8

[zanieb]

Hi! Can you make sure this isn't a duplicate of one of the existing issues for torch?

https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+torch

[sachit-menon]

I searched for different keywords for the error that this is getting and it doesn't appear in any of the other issues :)

[zanieb]

It looks like you might have meant to use --extra-index-url or, instead, run uv pip install wheel setuptools first. They normally comes pre-installed in virtual environments, but we do not seed environments by default (#865). Since something needs wheel but it is not provided by the torch index, installation fails.

[sachit-menon]

I copied the install command from the pytorch website with --index-url.
Just tried installing those first and:

> uv pip install wheel setuptools                                       
Resolved 2 packages in 539ms
Downloaded 1 package in 10.68s
Installed 1 package in 3.35s
 + setuptools==69.1.0
> uv pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
error: Failed to download and build: lit==15.0.7
  Caused by: Failed to build: lit==15.0.7
  Caused by: Failed to install requirements from setup.py build (resolve)
  Caused by: No solution found when resolving: wheel, setuptools >=40.8.0
  Caused by: Because wheel was not found in the package registry and you require wheel, we can conclude that the requirements are unsatisfiable.

conda list also confirms that wheel is already installed.

Does that help narrow it down? I created the environment with conda (full command is in the first post) so some things were already pre-installed.

[zanieb]

Interesting, I presumed we'd use your local builds for these if they were around but it doesn't look like we do. This is basically a limitation of specifying index urls, you've requested https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118 as your sole index URL but we cannot build the lit package without dependencies from the normal index. You could also pre-install lit.

I'm surprised this would work on pip as described (without caching).

[sachit-menon]

Interesting. I just tried with --extra-index-url instead and, unsurprisingly, it nominally succeeds but installs with CUDA 12 instead of 11 (because that's what's in the normal index).
This might be a separate source of error, but after I tried

uv pip uninstall torch torchvision torchaudio
uv pip install lit
uv pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118

I get

error: Failed to read metadata for: torchaudio==2.2.1
  Caused by: failed to open file `/proj/vondrick4/sachit/miniconda3/envs/test/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torchaudio-2.2.1.dist-info/METADATA`
  Caused by: No such file or directory (os error 2)

which seems like it doesn't like that I'm trying to install a package I uninstalled? (I wanted to try pre-installing lit like you recommended, which I'll still try in a fresh environment.)

[sachit-menon]

Manually installing the correct version of lit first in a fresh environment results in the same error.

error: Failed to download and build: lit==15.0.7
  Caused by: Failed to build: lit==15.0.7
  Caused by: Failed to install requirements from setup.py build (resolve)
  Caused by: No solution found when resolving: wheel, setuptools >=40.8.0
  Caused by: Because wheel was not found in the package registry and you require wheel, we can conclude that the requirements are unsatisfiable.

[sachit-menon]

Is there any way to install PyTorch with CUDA 11.8 using uv? This is one of my main use cases.

[zanieb]

Hi @sachit-menon

We now support --no-build-isolation so you can install wheel and setuptools beforehand which should unblock you here. See #2251 (comment) for example.

We also changed the order --extra-index-url and --index-url are prioritized in #2083 so just using --extra-index-url should work now?

[charliermarsh]

I think everything here has been resolved, but let me know if you have any outstanding questions and happy to walk through them.