No local packages or working download links found for spconv,error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('spconv')

Thanks for for the code. but when i’m trying to install all dependencies mentioned in install.md, i’m facing this error when i’m running the last step in it. Dependency installed

1. Ubuntu 16.04(Azure VM)
2. python 3.7.8
3. cuda 10.1
4. Pytorch 1.5
5. installed docker and run the docker pull command mentioned in the spconv repo.

**``` xyz@pvrcnn:~/OpenPCDet$ sudo python3 setup.py develop /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py:458: UserWarning: Normalizing ‘0.3.0+0741976’ to ‘0.3.0+741976’ warnings.warn(tmpl.format(**locals())) running develop running egg_info writing pcdet.egg-info/PKG-INFO writing dependency_links to pcdet.egg-info/dependency_links.txt writing requirements to pcdet.egg-info/requires.txt writing top-level names to pcdet.egg-info/top_level.txt /home/xyz/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/torch/utils/cpp_extension.py:304: UserWarning: Attempted to use ninja as the BuildExtension backend but we could not find ninja… Falling back to using the slow distutils backend. warnings.warn(msg.format(‘we could not find ninja.’)) reading manifest file ‘pcdet.egg-info/SOURCES.txt’ writing manifest file ‘pcdet.egg-info/SOURCES.txt’ running build_ext copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.7/pcdet/ops/iou3d_nms/iou3d_nms_cuda.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so -> pcdet/ops/iou3d_nms copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.7/pcdet/ops/roiaware_pool3d/roiaware_pool3d_cuda.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so -> pcdet/ops/roiaware_pool3d copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.7/pcdet/ops/roipoint_pool3d/roipoint_pool3d_cuda.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so -> pcdet/ops/roipoint_pool3d copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.7/pcdet/ops/pointnet2/pointnet2_stack/pointnet2_stack_cuda.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so -> pcdet/ops/pointnet2/pointnet2_stack copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.7/pcdet/ops/pointnet2/pointnet2_batch/pointnet2_batch_cuda.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so -> pcdet/ops/pointnet2/pointnet2_batch Creating /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pcdet.egg-link (link to .) pcdet 0.3.0+741976 is already the active version in easy-install.pth

Installed /home/xyz/OpenPCDet Processing dependencies for pcdet==0.3.0+741976 Searching for spconv Reading https://pypi.org/simple/spconv/ Couldn’t find index page for ‘spconv’ (maybe misspelled?) Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while) Reading https://pypi.org/simple/ No local packages or working download links found for spconv error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse(‘spconv’)

[MartinHahner]

you need to install spconv first: https://github.com/traveller59/spconv/issues/152

[natsume7]

i get the same problem but after Run cd ./dist, use pip to install generated whl file ,it work