ERROR: Cannot uninstall 'PyYAML'

[Gbemiro8]

It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.

[AdorableParker]

This problem seems to be caused by the latest version of chatterbot using version 4.0 PyYAML, and the latest version of PyYAML is higher than this version.
My solution was to install chatterbot version 1.0.1
pip install chatterbot == 1.0.1
So that it can be installed correctly
However, I still cannot upgrade to the latest version after installation.
ERROR: chatterbot-corpus 1.2.0 has requirement PyYAML <4.0,> = 3.12, but you'll have pyyaml ​​5.1.2 which is incompatible.

[fbieberly]

I had this same problem. I am on Windows 10, using anaconda's python3 distro.
When performing pip install chatterbot, it would work, but if I tried installing chatterbot-corpus, I would get the problem with pyyaml. I solved my problem with:

pip install chatterbot-corpus --ignore-installed

That's definitely not the right solution to this problem, but it at least got things working for me.

[zhxinc]

Is there any other solution to this problem? I have seen somewhere else that one could remove the package manually but I don't quite understand what that means.

[vkosuri]

could try pip3 install --upgrade pyyaml>=5.3

[ukreddy-erwin]

sudo -H pip3 install --upgrade pyyaml>=5.3
ERROR: Cannot uninstall 'PyYAML'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.

Ubuntu OS details:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

[gunthercox]

I believe I may have corrected this issue as of the latest release (1.0.8) see #2027 for details. Essentially the solution I have decided to go with is that PyYAML is no longer going to be installed as a part of ChatterBot's default installation.

Fee free to let me know if this doesn't resolve your issue, or open a new ticket if you encounter any other problems.

[kaushal1014]

pip3 install chatterbot-corpus --ignore-installed

I have tried this and it has worked for me :
Successfully built PyYAML
Installing collected packages: PyYAML, chatterbot-corpus
Successfully installed PyYAML-5.3.1 chatterbot-corpus-1.2.0

[Arouniversal]

searching related packages name and deleting .egg-info file works.