pip install mediapipe not working on apple silicon Macs, even in anaconda environment

[nakshatrasinghh]

[kiranscaria]

What is the pip and python version?

[tviktar]

Same issue.
Pip version: 21.1.2
Python: 3.8.6

[nakshatrasinghh]

Same issue.
Pip version: 21.1.2
Python: 3.8.6

Same versions on my machine as well. Any ways to solve this issue?

[sgowroji]

Hi @nakshatrasinghh , Can you check this [reference](MediaPipe PyPI supports macOS 10.15 and above. See https://github.com/google/mediapipe/blob/master/docs/getting_started/troubleshooting.md#python-pip-install-failure.).

[sn1c3]

Did you try it with python 3.7? I myself got some issues on my macbook (11.2.2). After I changed the conda python env to 3.7 everything worked fine

[nakshatrasinghh]

Did you try it with python 3.7? I myself got some issues on my macbook (11.2.2). After I changed the conda python env to 3.7 everything worked fine

Doesn't work, I am using M1 silicon not intel

[lucasmsantini]

Same issue here

Python: 3.9.2
PyCharm Community Edition 2021.1.1
PIP: 21.1.2

[jiuqiant]

MediaPipe currently doesn't support arm macOS. So does Mediapipe Python package.

[google-ml-butler]

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[josiahsrc]

I did some digging into this and went so far as to attempt to build a wheel for arm64, but to no avail. The only workaround I could find was to instead use rosetta. Here are the steps I took, which may be of help to others facing m1 issues:

1. Write your terminal application from within finder, select get info, and enable `open using rosetta'
2. Open up your terminal application with the rosetta flag set
3. Create a virtual env in your project, python3 -m venv myvenv
4. Activate it, source ./myvenv/bin/activate
5. pip install --upgrade pip
6. pip install mediapipe

After this, I was able to run mediapipe on my Mac. I hope this helps, and good luck!

[sgowroji]

Hi @josiahsrc, Thank you so much for sharing your answer this will definitely help full to the community. Thanks!

[belelaritra]

Yes @josiahsrc after this process it installed successfully into my machine but it's not working. Showing wrong architecture.

[josiahsrc]

@belelaritra Make sure you're using a python3.8.* version installed with x86_64 architecture. I was able to do this by installing Homebrew for x86_64 architecture (see this post). Then, I installed python 3.8.* using arch -x86_64 brew install python@3.8. From there, I ran the steps in my post above using the newly installed python. E.g.

arch -x86_64 /usr/local/Homebrew/Cellar/python@3.8/3.8.11/bin/python3 -m venv myenv

[belelaritra]

here homebrew is installed inside opt folder.

[josiahsrc]

On m1 macs, its typical to have two versions of Homebrew installed. One will be in opt folder (Homebrew for ARM), the other in /usr/local (Homebrew for x86_64)

[belelaritra]

I have followed all the steps from the link you have provided but there is no Celler folder inside homebrew but it's inside local only.

[josiahsrc]

Did you follow the second post? It looks like the accepted one is a bit outdated. Make sure you use the x86_64 homebrew via arch -x86_64 /usr/local/homebrew/bin/brew install python@3.8. Apologies, I had forgotten that the ARM homebrew is usually default in PATH.

[belelaritra]

Sorry I followed the first one.
But then I followed your steps (just changed the command into arch -x86_64 /usr/local/Cellar/python@3.8/3.8.11/bin/python3 -m venv myenv ) and it's now working(just checked one hand module).

Thank you sir.
It helps me a lot.

[josiahsrc]

Happy to help! 😄

[Leon-Brant]

MediaPipe 目前不支持 arm macOS。Mediapipe Python 包也是如此。
I see. Thank you 🙏 for sharing this information

[yasserdzx]

it doesnt work on python 3.10 i downgraded mine to 3.9 and it worked

[MatusGasparik]

Hi @jiuqiant. Can I ask what the plans are regarding the support for the osx-arm64 platform?

[matanox]

Is the issue only with TensorFlow, or does anything else in mediapipe or which mediapipe depends play as a blocker in using (or building) mediapipe on the M1 processor on mac?

[iPHOENIX-matrix]

1. Create a new conda environment and install python version 3.9.13 in that environment
2. Then using pip install MediaPipe:
   Code:
   pip install mediapipe

Write this code in the terminal.
MediaPipe package will be installed.

I tried to install "mediapipe-silicon" in my M1 Pro MacBook but version error was coming every time with most versions of python but luckily I found the above solution and it worked. Hopefully this might work for other developers.

Happy Coding!
-iPHOENIX