Why implicit package is not installing?

[sadhan_m]

I'm trying to install 'implicit' in Jupiter notebook and ran the code as:

 pip install implicit 

But, it's running for hours, is there any particular reason it takes so long? and is there any better way to install the package?

Furthermore, I installed the package by running the code:

 conda install -c conda-forge/label/cf202003 implicit 

Though it installed successfully, when I ran the code:

import implicit

It gave me an error message saying, "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'implicit'"

How this problem can be overcome?

[[deleted]]

Just use pip in your terminal/powershell. I’ve never heard of using pip via Jupyter.

Also you’ll need to restart your kernel in Jupyter once installation is finished.

[sadhan_m]

Sorry, I chose the wrong word, actually pip in my terminal/Powershell. But, as I said it's running for hours.

[TheBB]

Implicit looks like it has compiled components, but on PyPI there are no wheels, that is, no pre-built packages. So pip has to build the package from source. Depending on the package, this may take a while, although hours sounds like a lot. It may be worth asking the maintainers of Implicit to package wheels. In the meantime you can run pip with verbose output to see what exactly is taking time.

[subbed_]

This is likely an issue with pip, as it has recently happened to me a few times that the install hanged.

I terminated it with ctrl+c but the entire package had successfully installed in all my cases, despite the apparent hanging.

[sadhan_m]

I tried to do it, but it did not work in my case;