[Solved] Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Hello Guys, How are you all? Hope You all Are Fine. Today I am just trying to install python package But I am facing following error Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory in python. So Here I am Explain to you all the possible solutions here.

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How Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Error Occurs ?

I am just trying to install python package But I am facing following error.

Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\\users\\ssc\\appdata\\roaming\\python\\python37\\site-packages\\pip-19.0.1.dist-info\\METADATA'

How To Solve Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Error ?

Solution 1: Remove the MAX_PATH Limitation

Windows historically has limited path lengths to 260 characters. This meant that paths longer than this would not resolve and errors would result.

In the latest versions of Windows, this limitation can be expanded to approximately 32,000 characters. Your administrator will need to activate the “Enable Win32 long paths” group policy, or set the registry value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem@LongPathsEnabled to 1.

This allows the open() function, the os module and most other path functionality to accept and return paths longer than 260 characters.

After changing the above option, no further configuration is required.

Solution 2: Remove folder and try again

In my case I am facing error in this path. c:\\users\\ssc\\anaconda3\\envs\\env-gpu\\lib\\site-packages\\requests-2.24.0.dist-info\\METADATA

So I just delete ‘c:\\users\\ssc\\anaconda3\\envs\\env-gpu\\lib\\site-packages\\requests-2.24.0.dist-info’ path and Again try pip install my-package command And package installed successfully.

Solution 3: Set the registry

This is similar to solution 1. Just Click Start, and then click Run. In the Open box, paste %systemroot%\syswow64\regedit , and then click OK. Then Just set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem@LongPathsEnabled to 1

Summary

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