Assistance installing Faster-Whisper

[Bridger Reed-Lewis]

I got it installed now, i had to run the install in a virtual environment
it's what chatgpt recommended.


On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM Bridger Reed-Lewis <
bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am running this on Arch, and i keep getting this error:
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> *× This environment is externally managed╰─> To install Python packages
> system-wide, try 'pacman -S    python-xyz', where xyz is the package you
> are trying to    install.        If you wish to install a non-Arch-packaged
> Python package,    create a virtual environment using 'python -m venv
> path/to/venv'.    Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and
> path/to/venv/bin/pip.        If you wish to install a non-Arch packaged
> Python application,    it may be easiest to use 'pipx install xyz', which
> will manage a    virtual environment for you. Make sure you have
> python-pipx    installed via pacman.note: If you believe this is a mistake,
> please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You
> can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS,
> by passing --break-system-packages.*
> *hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification.*
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> I ran the override, and it kept installing in a folder that didn't exist,
> even trying to open it in the terminal. Ended up uninstalling it, weirdly
> enough I tried to install it on an older laptop and got as far as executing
> the python script they had us make, ran it and the program froze.
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> On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM Benson Muite <benson_muite at emailplus.org>
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>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2025, at 10:34 AM, Bridger Reed-Lewis wrote:
>> > I am wondering if the community would help me install faster-whisper,
>> which
>> > will be the back end for the dictation tool I need. Shervin mentioned
>> > having custom code to make it similar to what Mac OS offers for its
>> users.
>> > My laptop came in way way earlier than I thought it would,  I'm ready to
>> > jump all into the system.
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>> It seems to be available on PyPI
>> https://pypi.org/project/faster-whisper/
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>> Python packages on PyPI can usually be installed with pip, so
>> pip install faster-whisper
>> should work, though may not integrate very well with your system.
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>> Generally, this is for discussing KDE applications, you may want to join
>> channels for discussing Arch linux as well as to get specific
>> installation advice.
>> You might also want to examine Arch derivatives such as Manjaro:
>> https://manjaro.org
>> and Garuda:
>> https://garudalinux.org/editions
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>> Is there a KDE application that will integrate with faster-whisper?
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