Unable to install whisper.

[m1adow]

Hello! I want to explore the capabilities of whisper, but I can't get it to work. I am running a Docker container on Alpine Linux. Then, connecting to that container through sh and trying to install Whisper. I have built Python 3.10.14 inside the container, created a venv, and installed rust-setup. But when I am installing Whisper, I get this error.

pip3.10 install -U openai-whisper

INFO: This is taking longer than usual. You might need to provide the dependency resolver with stricter constraints to reduce runtime. See https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/backtracking for guidance. If you want to abort this run, press Ctrl + C.
ERROR: Cannot install openai-whisper==20230117, openai-whisper==20230124, openai-whisper==20230306, openai-whisper==20230307, openai-whisper==20230308, openai-whisper==20230314, openai-whisper==20230918, openai-whisper==20231105, openai-whisper==20231106, openai-whisper==20231117, openai-whisper==20240927, openai-whisper==20240930 and openai-whisper==20250625 because these package versions have conflicting dependencies.

The conflict is caused by:
    openai-whisper 20250625 depends on torch
    openai-whisper 20240930 depends on torch
    openai-whisper 20240927 depends on torch
    openai-whisper 20231117 depends on torch
    openai-whisper 20231106 depends on torch
    openai-whisper 20231105 depends on torch
    openai-whisper 20230918 depends on torch
    openai-whisper 20230314 depends on torch
    openai-whisper 20230308 depends on torch
    openai-whisper 20230307 depends on torch
    openai-whisper 20230306 depends on triton>=2.0.0.dev20221202
    openai-whisper 20230124 depends on torch
    openai-whisper 20230117 depends on torch

To fix this, you could try to:
1. loosen the range of package versions you've specified
2. remove package versions to allow pip to attempt to solve the dependency conflict

ERROR: ResolutionImpossible: for help visit https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/topics/dependency-resolution/#dealing-with-dependency-conflicts

I hope someone will help 😊

[misutoneko]

A pip bug, maybe? What's your pip version?
pypa/pip#13001

[m1adow]

Thank you for the response! My pip version is pip 25.2 from /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip (python 3.10)

[misutoneko]

Right, that's not it then. That one was fixed in somewhere around 25.1.
I've had my fair share of trouble with pip, but I don't think I've ever seen similar.
You could try restricting the pip install command to a particular whisper version and see if that helps.
I remember that I had to install some of the dependencies one by one and using a particular version, but YMMV :D
GL

[phineas-pta]

u can look for a docker image with torch installed then install whisper