Pip-sync Error: When I run pip-sync requirements.txt requirements-dev.txt , I am getting the following error. And instead of installing packages it uninstalls package.

[Haaarrrssshhh]

Found existing installation: wincertstore 0.2 ERROR: Cannot uninstall 'wincertstore'. 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. Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\users\harsh zota\anaconda3\envs\fsdl-text-recognizer\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main "main", mod_spec) File "c:\users\harsh zota\anaconda3\envs\fsdl-text-recognizer\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "C:\Users\Harsh Zota\anaconda3\envs\fsdl-text-recognizer\Scripts\pip-sync.exe_main.py", line 7, in File "C:\Users\Harsh Zota\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\click\core.py", line 829, in call return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\Harsh Zota\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\click\core.py", line 782, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "C:\Users\Harsh Zota\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1066, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "C:\Users\Harsh Zota\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\site-packages\click\core.py", line 610, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "c:\users\harsh zota\anaconda3\envs\fsdl-text-recognizer\lib\site-packages\piptools\scripts\sync.py", line 153, in cli ask=ask, File "c:\users\harsh zota\anaconda3\envs\fsdl-text-recognizer\lib\site-packages\piptools\sync.py", line 197, in sync + sorted(to_uninstall) File "c:\users\harsh zota\anaconda3\envs\fsdl-text-recognizer\lib\subprocess.py", line 363, in check_call raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['c:\users\harsh zota\anaconda3\envs\fsdl-text-recognizer\python.exe', '-m', 'pip', 'uninstall', '-y', 'wincertstore']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

[SasankYadati]

I tried pip-sync --user requirements.txt requirements-dev.txt and it worked. This command will install in the home directory instead of the system directory.

Edit: please don't do this inside a virtual environment.