BERTopic: ERROR: Could not build wheels for hdbscan, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

The Bertopic installation, (Edit- Python Version 3.9.12)

pip install bertopic

fails by throwing the below error :

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

ERROR: Failed building wheel for hdbscan Failed to build hdbscan ERROR: Could not build wheels for hdbscan, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects`

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However, when I searched stackoverflow - the provided solution is not helping me.

Any lead on how to fix this?

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  • Created 2 years ago
  • Comments: 31 (13 by maintainers)

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If you’re getting the below error while installing bertopic

ERROR: Could not build wheels for hdbscan, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

First Make sure you’ve Microsoft Visual C++, check here

Second install the hdbscan command: conda install -c conda-forge hdbscan

Third install bertopic command: pip install bertopic

Now you’re good to go 😃