Section 4 - Slither installation error - ERROR: rlp 1.2.0 has requirement eth-utils<2,>=1.0.2, but you'll have eth-utils 2.3.1 which is incompatible.

[xKeywordx]

Hello guys,

I am trying to install Slither, but I keep running into those dependency conflicts. At first, I had 4 conflicts to solve and with the help of ChatGPT I was able to fix 3 of them, but right now I am stuck here and can not install Slither.

Is anyone here that ran into the same issue? How did you solve it?

The error

ERROR: rlp 1.2.0 has requirement eth-utils<2,>=1.0.2, but you'll have eth-utils 2.3.1 which is incompatible.

The conflict with rlp and eth-utils is more challenging because rlp requires eth-utils version to be less than 2, but slither-analyzer requires it to be greater than 2.1.0. This is a classic case of incompatible dependencies.

Here are a few approaches to resolve this:

Option 1: Downgrade rlp to a version compatible with eth-utils 2.3.1, if such a version exists.
Option 2: Downgrade eth-utils to meet the requirements of rlp, and then check if slither-analyzer still functions correctly.

I've tried Options 1 and 2, but none of them worked because if I downgrade any of them, it will cause more errors.

[PatrickAlphaC]

Yeah, this is one of the annoying thing with python packages.

Could you try installing slither with pipx? Pipx installs all packages to their own isolated virtual environment so you don't have to deal with package dependencies. I like using pipx for all my command line python installs for exactly this reason.

Steps:

1. Install pipx
2. Use pipx to install slither. ie: pipx install slither-analyzer

[xKeywordx]

It worked. Thank you very much.
Problem solved

[giriraj-kulkarni]

i tried all the methods in this discussions but it shows me errors like

ERROR: Failed building wheel for lru-dict
Running setup.py clean for lru-dict
Failed to build ckzg cytoolz lru-dict
ERROR: ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (ckzg, cytoolz, lru-dict)```

[giriraj-kulkarni]

not even conda works nor pipx nor changing python 3 and python nor wsl or docker
or git

[EngrPips]

Thats tough. Maybe check Slither's official GitHub https://github.com/crytic/slither for help.