Can’t install PyArrow on Ubuntu

I have an EC2 Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS instance with python 3.6.9

I tried to install pyarrow with this command:

python3 -m pip install pyarrow

But I get an error:

Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;
__file__='/tmp/pip-build-3q5nmx81/pyarrow/setup.py';
f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('rn', 'n');
f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" 
install --record /tmp/pip-fgafmfzg-record/install-record.txt 
--single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=" 
failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-3q5nmx81/pyarrow/

Reading the first messages after trying to install yarrow I see this:

Building wheels for collected packages: pyarrow
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pyarrow ... error

Please, do you know how I can solve this issue? Thank you in advance.

Answer

If you are working in a virtual environment, it is likely that your pip version is the default one (9.0.1). Try to upgrade it with pip install --upgrade pip and run the command python3 -m pip install pyarrow again.

Tested under Ubuntu 18.04, with Python 3.6.9 and pyarrow==4.0.0

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