Error when installing on apple silicon mac

[abhigyanj]

Description of error

I've installed all the required dependencies for macOS mentioned on https://docs.manim.community/en/stable/installation/macos.html but when I try to install manim via pip, I get the following error:

...
Collecting manimpango<0.5.0,>=0.4.0.post0 (from manim)
  Using cached ManimPango-0.4.4.tar.gz (4.1 MB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [21 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/Users/abhigyanj/Documents/Programming/Python Learning/3b1b/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
          main()
          ~~~~^^
        File "/Users/abhigyanj/Documents/Programming/Python Learning/3b1b/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 335, in main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
                                   ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/Users/abhigyanj/Documents/Programming/Python Learning/3b1b/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return hook(config_settings)
        File "/private/var/folders/32/wr9q6vq15n12d_r6zn21lpq80000gn/T/pip-build-env-7vh801uw/overlay/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 332, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/private/var/folders/32/wr9q6vq15n12d_r6zn21lpq80000gn/T/pip-build-env-7vh801uw/overlay/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 302, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
        File "/private/var/folders/32/wr9q6vq15n12d_r6zn21lpq80000gn/T/pip-build-env-7vh801uw/overlay/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 318, in run_setup
          exec(code, locals())
          ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "<string>", line 42, in <module>
        File "<string>", line 38, in get_version
      KeyError: '__version__'
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

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

System specifications

System Details

• OS: macOS 15.1
• RAM: 16GB
• Python version: Python 3.13.0
• Installed modules (using venv):
• Chip: M1

Package Version
------- -------
pip     24.2

Extra details: When I try installing the latest version of manimpango, it installs

[behackl]

This appears to be an issue with Python 3.13. The version restriction imposed on manimpango (>=0.4.0.post0, <0.5.0) seem a bit odd, though. Can you share the full log output of pip install?

The easiest way to get the install up and going on your machine is either directly brew-installing manim (brew install manim), or pip-installing it with a Python version of at most 3.12, until we manage to release a new version where this is fixed.

[nhabedi]

I had the same problem on Windows and I can confirm that downgrading from Python 3.13 to 3.12 solves the issue.

[fluxxion82]

ditto...not using Python 3.13 worked for me too

[akirpach]

Second @nhabedi 's respond,

I installed python3.12 -m venv new_venv new virtual environment and then pip3 install manim there. Works without issues.

[thomasgundt]

could someone possibly add this solution as a note to the community website? https://docs.manim.community/en/stable/installation/macos.html

BTW: I can confirm as well, that downgrading to 3.12 works just fine