Install Troubleshooting

This page lists common issues encountered when installing FiftyOne and possible solutions. If you encounter an issue that this page doesn’t help you resolve, feel free to open an issue on GitHub or contact us on Slack.

Python/pip incompatibilities

“No matching distribution found”

If you attempt to install FiftyOne with a version of Python or pip that is too old, you may encounter errors like these:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement fiftyone (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for fiftyone

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement fiftyone-brain (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for fiftyone-brain

fiftyone requires Python '>=3.5' but the running Python is 3.4.10

To resolve this, you will need to use Python 3.5 or newer, and pip 19.3 or newer. See the installation guide for details. If you have installed a suitable version of Python in a virtual environment and still encounter this error, ensure that the virtual environment is activated. See the virtual environment setup guide for more details.

“No module named skbuild”

On Linux, this error can occur when attempting to install OpenCV with an old pip version. To fix this, upgrade pip. See the installation guide for instructions, or the opencv-python FAQ for more details.

IPython installation

If you are using IPython and a virtual environment for FiftyOne, IPython must be installed in the virtual environment, per the installation guide. If you attempt to use a system-wide IPython installation in a virtual environment with FiftyOne, you may encounter errors such as:

.../IPython/core/interactiveshell.py:935: UserWarning: Attempting to work in a virtualenv. If you encounter problems, please install IPython inside the virtualenv.

File ".../fiftyone/core/../_service_main.py", line 29, in <module>
    import psutil
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'psutil'

ServerSelectionTimeoutError: localhost:27017: [Errno 111] Connection refused

To resolve this, install IPython in your active virtual environment (see the virtual environment guide for more information):

pip install ipython

MongoDB compatibility issues on Linux

The fiftyone-db package includes a build of MongoDB that works on Ubuntu 18.04 and several other modern distributions. If this build does not work on your distribution, you may encounter an error similar to:

/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/fiftyone/db/bin/mongod: failed to launch:
/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/fiftyone/db/bin/mongod: error while loading shared libraries:
libcrypto.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

RuntimeError: Could not find mongod >= 3.6

To resolve this, you can install an alternative package on some distributions, detailed below, or install a compatible version of MongoDB system-wide.

Alternative builds

Alternative builds of MongoDB are available as pip packages for the distributions listed below, and can be installed by running the corresponding command. Note that these packages must be installed after the fiftyone package; if you install fiftyone afterwards, you can fix your MongoDB installation by adding --force-reinstall to the commands below.

Ubuntu 16.04

Debian 9

pip install --index https://pypi.voxel51.com fiftyone-db-ubuntu1604

pip install --index https://pypi.voxel51.com fiftyone-db-debian9

Manual installation

FiftyOne also supports using an existing MongoDB installation (version 3.6 or newer). This can be installed through many distributions’ package managers. Note that only the mongod (server) binary is required, so you may not need the complete MongoDB package. For example, Debian-based distributions make this available in the mongodb-server package.

If your distribution does not provide a new-enough version of MongoDB, or if you would like to install a newer version, see the MongoDB documentation for instructions on installing MongoDB on your distribution. Note that you only need the mongodb-org-server package in this case.

To verify the version of your MongoDB installation, run mongod --version, which should produce output that looks like this:

db version v4.2.6
git version: 20364840b8f1af16917e4c23c1b5f5efd8b352f8
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.1.1  11 Sep 2018
allocator: tcmalloc
modules: none
build environment:
    distmod: ubuntu1804
    distarch: x86_64
    target_arch: x86_64

Verify that the version after “db version” is at least 3.6.