Encountered error while trying to install fasttext

[cw-rtm]

anyone has idea how to fix this?
i am using a new profile on company's laptop, the old profile had no issue when installing

[RwGrid]

use linux and still you need build-essential-12.9, install it as .deb package
if windows ,use python 3.8 or 3.9 with :
don't install the normal way , do this instead in conda
pip install --no-deps easynmt
pip install langdetect
pip install nltk

[Sirozha1337]

In case anyone still looking for a solution. The problem is in the fastText package which doesn't have pre-built binaries for Python 3.10 and later. So it requires a rebuild from source, which requires the correct version of gcc compiler, which in this case is 12.

You can check which version of gcc you have by running this command:
gcc --version

If it's 13, 14 or whatever, then you need to the following:

1. You need to install previous gcc and g++ version using this command:
   apt install gcc-12 g++-12

2. Then you need to set this version as default one:
   update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-12 1

3. Then install the fasttext package:
   pip install fasttext

4. Then you can finally install the EasyNMT

To revert back, use these commands:

1. Revert the default version back using this command:
   update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-13 1

2. Remove unneeded compiler:
   apt remove gcc-12 g++-12