概要

pip install を実行した際に、Cannot uninstall blinker 1.4 という見慣れないエラーが発生した。
この対処法を記載したのがこの記事です。

実行環境

Windwos 上の WSL2 内で、 airobotbook/ros2-desktop-ai-robot-book-humble という docker イメージをビルドし、その中で pip install を行っていました。

具体的には以下の通り。

item	version など
OS	Windows Home Edition (WSL2)
docker image	airobotbook/ros2-desktop-ai-robot-book-humble
OS in docker image	Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
python	3.10.12

エラー発生状況

bash

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

...

  Attempting uninstall: blinker
    Found existing installation: blinker 1.4
   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╺━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 15/37 [blinker]error: uninstall-distutils-installed-package

× Cannot uninstall blinker 1.4
╰─> 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.

エラーまでの出力全文を見る

※ 後ほど原因は mlflow であることが判明したので、 mlflow のみを install しています。

$ pip install -r requirements.txt
WARNING: The directory '/home/ubuntu/.cache/pip' or its parent directory is not owned or is not writable by the current user. The cache has been disabled. Check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you should use sudo's -H flag.
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× Cannot uninstall blinker 1.4
╰─> 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.

対処法

1. blinker に依存しているパッケージを利用しない

まず、私の場合は mlflow が blinker に依存していたので、requirements.txt から mlflow をコメントアウトするだけで解決しました。

ただ、どうしても mlflow を使いたい場合にはどうすればよいか。それを以下で考えてみました。

2. --ignore-installed オプションの利用 (非推奨)

以下の二つの記事で案内されていました。

1つ目の記事は embedchain 、2つ目の記事は paddlepaddle というライブラリをインストールしようとして同じエラーに直面しているようでしたが、いずれも --ignore-installed というオプションを利用することによって問題を回避しているようでした。

具体的には、今回の場合は以下のようにコマンドを打つことで、問題を回避できる可能性があります。（私の場合は回避できました）

$ pip install --ignore-installed -r requirements.txt

このオプションについて詳しく知りたい方は以下の記事が参考になると思います。

私なりにこのオプションについて解説すると以下のようになります。

--ignore-installed は、既にインストールされている（古い）パッケージを残したまま、新しいバージョンの同名パッケージをインストールして、双方を共存させる
その結果、 uninstall が発生しないので、 uninstall blinker 1.4 に失敗することもない

このため、各パッケージの import 実行時によくわからないエラーに出くわすリスクが残っていると思います。
そのため非推奨とさせていただきました

3. docker イメージの変更

こちらで対処できるなら、こちらの対処法の方がいいかもしれません。
以下の記事で提案されていました。

今回私は、この対処法はコストが高すぎて採用できなかったのですが、python 3.12 以上であれば blinker が削除されているらしいので、この問題は発生しないと予想されます。

4. python3-blinker というパッケージのアンインストール

以下の記事で提案されていた対処法です。

flask も blinker に依存しているようですね。

対処法としては比較的簡単で、 blinker に依存しているパッケージをインストールする前に、 python3-blinker を除去しておけば、 python パッケージの blinker も削除されて、問題が解決するようです。

具体的には以下のようにします。

# Docker コンテナ内で実施した
$ apt remove python3-blinker
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

この方法でも、私は問題が解消できました。

Dockerfile に書く場合は以下のように書くと良いでしょう。

Dockerfile

RUN apt -y remove python3-blinker
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt

判明している原因パッケージ

以下のパッケージを利用している場合には、この問題が発生するようですね( ˘ω˘)ｽﾔｧ。。。

embedchain
flask
mlflow
paddlepaddle