problem with gym while installing minerl

[1Sep7]

so i decided to try minerl and before even starting i found this problem while doing "pip install minerl"

Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [3 lines of output]
C:\Users\Utente\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\site-packages\setuptools_distutils\dist.py:261: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'tests_require'
warnings.warn(msg)
error in gym setup command: 'extras_require' must be a dictionary whose values are strings or lists of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers.
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

[Miffyli]

Hey. Installing from pip does not work with newer Python versions sadly. You need to install MineRL from the github with the settings in the README: https://github.com/minerllabs/minerl

[lukedoma1]

Which version of Python do we need? I don't see where in the README the instructions for the correct python version are.

[Miffyli]

Yes, those were never added as "the current Python version was the right at the time" 😅 . You can try using e.g., Python 3.8, but I think this leads to issues with other dependencies not supporting older Pythons. This is a dependency-mess that makes installation of the older MineRLs difficult, and maintainers have not had time to fix these issues

[lukedoma1]

Okay, thank you. Yeah, I wasn't able to figure out how to install v0.3.7, but I eventually got v1.0.0 to work with python 3.10 using Ubuntu VM.

[stephmilani]

If you find an install combination that works, also please feel free to open up a PR documenting it to help others get set up!