Question: I am trying to pip install sentence transformers. I am working on a Macbook pro with an M1 chip. I am using the following command:  pip3 install -U sentence-transformers  When I run this, I get this error/output and I do not know how to fix it... Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable Collecting sentence-transformers Using cached sentence-transformers-2.2.2.tar.gz (85 kB) Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done Collecting transformers<5.0.0,>=4.6.0 Using cached transformers-4.21.0-py3-none-any.whl (4.7 MB) Collecting tqdm Using cached tqdm-4.64.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (78 kB) Requirement already satisfied: torch>=1.6.0 in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from sentence-transformers) (1.12.0) Collecting torchvision Using cached torchvision-0.13.0-cp38-cp38-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (1.2 MB) Requirement already satisfied: numpy in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from sentence-transformers) (1.23.1) Collecting scikit-learn Using cached scikit_learn-1.1.1-cp38-cp38-macosx_12_0_arm64.whl (7.6 MB) Collecting scipy Using cached scipy-1.8.1-cp38-cp38-macosx_12_0_arm64.whl (28.6 MB) Collecting nltk Using cached nltk-3.7-py3-none-any.whl (1.5 MB) Collecting sentencepiece Using cached sentencepiece-0.1.96.tar.gz (508 kB) Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done Collecting huggingface-hub>=0.4.0 Using cached huggingface_hub-0.8.1-py3-none-any.whl (101 kB) Collecting requests Using cached requests-2.28.1-py3-none-any.whl (62 kB) Collecting pyyaml>=5.1 Using cached PyYAML-6.0.tar.gz (124 kB) Installing build dependencies ... done Getting requirements to build wheel ... done Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done Requirement already satisfied: typing-extensions>=3.7.4.3 in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from huggingface-hub>=0.4.0->sentence-transformers) (4.3.0) Requirement already satisfied: filelock in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from huggingface-hub>=0.4.0->sentence-transformers) (3.7.1) Requirement already satisfied: packaging>=20.9 in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from huggingface-hub>=0.4.0->sentence-transformers) (21.3) Collecting tokenizers!=0.11.3,<0.13,>=0.11.1 Using cached tokenizers-0.12.1.tar.gz (220 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 "/Users/joeyoneill/Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 363, in <module> main() File "/Users/joeyoneill/Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 345, in main json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs']) File "/Users/joeyoneill/Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/in_process/_in_process.py", line 130, in get_requires_for_build_wheel return hook(config_settings) File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 146, in get_requires_for_build_wheel return self._get_build_requires( File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 127, in _get_build_requires self.run_setup() File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 142, in run_setup exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'), locals()) File "setup.py", line 2, in <module> from setuptools_rust import Binding, RustExtension File "/private/var/folders/bg/ncfh283n4t39vqhvbd5n9ckh0000gn/T/pip-build-env-vjj6eow8/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools_rust/__init__.py", line 1, in <module> from .build import build_rust File "/private/var/folders/bg/ncfh283n4t39vqhvbd5n9ckh0000gn/T/pip-build-env-vjj6eow8/overlay/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools_rust/build.py", line 20, in <module> from setuptools.command.build import build as CommandBuild # type: ignore[import] ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools.command.build' [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 anybody tell me what I should do or what is wrong with what I am currently doing? I factory reset my Mac and re-downloaded everything but I still get this same error. I am stumped.

Answer: I posted this as an issue to the actual Sentence Transformers GitHub page. Around 4 days ago I was given this answer by a "Federico Viticci" which resolved the issue and allowed me to finally install the library: "For what it is worth, I was having the exact issue. Installing it directly from source using pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers  fixed it on my M1 Max MacBook Pro." Original Git Issue here: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/issues/1652