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ERROR: failed building wheel when installing spectral-cube (astropy)

I'm trying to install the package spectral-cube from the astropy project using pip (22.0.4). I get a long error which ends with this:
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for casa-formats-io.
Failed to build casa-formats-io.
ERROR: Could not build wheels for casa-formats-io, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
Even after downloading casa-formats-io from their github I still get this error.
I've also tried installing this using conda, but the error is the same.
I'm using MacOS 12.3. But I had the problem with older versions.
I'm kind of confused as to what I can do.
Thanks for the help!

I was able to fix my own problem. The error appeared because the package I was trying to download wasn't available/compatible with the newest python version (3.10). So, I simply uninstalled Python and downloaded an older version (3.8).
Thanks anyways :)

Pip doesn't let me install pyzmail, I always get the same error no matter what I try

So I'm following along "Automate the boring stuff" by Al Sweigart. And he uses pyzmail in the book. Naturally I'm going to want to use it too in order to follow along with the book. I've tried every single thing on the internet - and it's just frustrating. Can somebody tell me how to fix this please? I just can't get this damn pyzmail module installed. I've even tried virtual environments. I get this error no matter what, it's like it's destined to be and god wants me to suffer in the cmd prompt and google for 3 hours .
.\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0>pip install pyzmail
Collecting pyzmail
Using cached pyzmail-1.0.3.tar.gz (57 kB)
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [2 lines of output]
error in pyzmail setup command: use_2to3 is invalid.
VERSION 1.0.3
[end of output]
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed
× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.
note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.
This is the error. I find it really confusing.
error: metadata-generation-failed

I am not sure that it will work but that's what I found.
setuptools>=58 breaks support for use_2to3 that is why you are facing this error
Consider downgrading the setuptools to version 57.
pip install -I setuptools==57.5.0
That is the latest 57 version.
Also, you may consider not using this library.
UPDATE
As I understood, this package is abandoned and the last release was in May 2014. Downgrading the setuptools will not work. This package fails in setting up an abandoned distribute library.
Link to the same problem and answer.

Error installing pyQt5: error: metadata-generation-failed

I was tring to install PyQt5 and a get this error:
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed
× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.
note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.
I've tried using brew install pyqt and installing pyqt6 went out just fine. What's wrong.

Ok, I faced this issue with python 3.10.4 and after searching I found two solutions for this problem because this problem not being only with turtle but for other libraries.
#Note: These solutions for downloading any library if you have a problem mentioned above and this problem faced me in windows CMD.
So you could try this way:
pip install <libraryName>==0.0.1
0.0.1 This is the last version of the library so you should find the version of the library that you want to install for this purpose, you can find the version of the library using this command:
pip show module <name_of_the_library>
another solution that could work is using --use-deprecated=backtrack-on-build-failures
Example:
pip install turtle --use-deprecated=backtrack-on-build-failures
Hope to help you.

Getting install package leads to PyCrypto error while installing Python libraries?

I'm trying to install smartapi Python library
pip install smartapi
But it's throw error.....
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: legacy-install-failure
× Encountered error while trying to install package.
╰─> PyCrypto
note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for output from the failure.
error image:
My Python version is 3.10.2 and my pip version is 22.0.3

PyCrypto is no longer supported. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/69516560/7976758 and https://stackoverflow.com/a/58077358/7976758 .
SmartAPI requires Python 2 (see the bottom of the left column). Try Python 2.7. Or find out a different package.

Installation error: legacy-install-failure pyoptimus

I'm trying to install pyoptimus in a conda virtual environment, but I'm getting this error every time.
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: legacy-install-failure
× Encountered error while trying to install package.
╰─> llvmlite
As per the official documentation, I've tried creating different environments with different versions of python, but it doesn't seem to work!
Please let me know if anyone knows a way around the problem. Thanks!