pip install drake known issues

[jwnimmer-tri]

Installation via Pip documents our instructions for installing Drake via pip.

For ease of reference, this ticket will consolidate the known issues with pip install drake.

• Add support for macOS arm64 wheels #17906
• pip install: Fetch platform-independent data  #15774
  • Some data files that are usually available as part of the Drake installation are not available in the PyPI wheel, because the files are too large
• pip install's system prerequisites #16383
• Enable dReal in pip wheel #15970
• pip wheel lacks some LCM message inter-operability #15957
• pip install: AddModelFromFile fails due to missing drake/package.xml #16069
• Publish manylinux 3.8 and 3.9 pip wheels #15959
• Enable SNOPT in pip wheel #15961
• Enable CLP in pip wheel #15969
• Enable IPOPT in pip wheel #15971
  • ipopt_solver_test: passes in CI, but fails under pip #17162
• Publish macosx pip wheels #15958
• Replace tkinter usage with a modern, lightweight alternative #14702
• Add Ubuntu Python 3.10 wheels #17483

Relates to #1183.

Note that sub-issues here are closed when the fix is merged to our master branch. Not all fixes have been published to pypi yet.

[RandyChen233]

is there a way to install Drake in a windows machine? I'm getting the following error while attempting to install it in a Ubuntu terminal:
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement drake (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for drake

[jwnimmer-tri]

@RandyChen233 sorry you're having trouble!

For support requests, we have some advice in https://drake.mit.edu/getting_help.html -- in short, please post requests for troubleshooting help to StackOverflow, not the issues database.

For installing via pip, please see https://drake.mit.edu/pip.html for instructions. Note that it links to https://drake.mit.edu/installation.html#supported-configurations which says what we can handle. We don't support Windows-native wheels per se, but it sounds like you're using Ubuntu on WSL, perhaps. Per those webpages and the known issues list above, note that we only offer Python 3.6 and Python 3.7 wheels at the moment. My guess would be that you're trying to use Python 3.8 or newer.

Our wheels also require pip >= 20.3, which could also be the cause of that error. I see now that our documentation doesn't mention this, though it does say to upgrade pip. I'll update our docs to call out that pip version requirement specifically.

If you're still having trouble installing, please post a StackOverflow question and we can investigate via that forum.

[rcywongaa]

FWIW, currently, the default python3-pip package offered by Ubuntu 20.04 is 20.0.2 which is incompatible (Drake requires pip >= 20.3).

If not installing through a virtual environment (not recommended), the following 2 options should work:

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Use an external pip to install drake

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

and install drake with

python3 -m pip install drake

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or use the original command but with sudo

sudo pip install --upgrade pip
sudo pip install drake

[jwnimmer-tri]

As of the forthcoming v1.15.0, I think all of the known issues will be fixed.

If anyone has new problems, please open a new issue for it.