[Installation]: subprocess-exited-with-error while installing vllm

[kailashp19]

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while doing pip install vllm on vscode running on windows machine. Getting below error for pytorch specific version installation.

Collecting vllm
  Using cached vllm-0.7.2.tar.gz (5.4 MB)
  Installing build dependencies ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × pip subprocess to install build dependencies did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [12 lines of output]
      Collecting cmake>=3.26
        Using cached cmake-3.31.4-py3-none-win_amd64.whl.metadata (6.5 kB)
      Collecting ninja
        Using cached ninja-1.11.1.3-py3-none-win_amd64.whl.metadata (5.3 kB)
      Collecting packaging
        Using cached packaging-24.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.2 kB)
      Collecting setuptools>=61
        Using cached setuptools-75.8.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.7 kB)
      Collecting setuptools-scm>=8.0
        Using cached setuptools_scm-8.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.6 kB)
      ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement torch==2.5.1 (from versions: 2.6.0)
      ERROR: No matching distribution found for torch==2.5.1
      [end of output]

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

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 24.2 -> 25.0
[notice] To update, run: python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× pip subprocess to install build dependencies 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.

How you are installing vllm

pip install vllm

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