Ubuntu 22.04 install issue (solved)

[hwertz]

Thought I'd post this up in case anyone else runs into the same issue.

I'm running Ubuntu 22.04, and I've got plenty of python packages installed (so I already had pytorch etc. installed for instance.) I know I should use venvs, but I'm not. Long story short, "pip install -U openai-whisper" would result in version 20240930 installed rather than 20250625. And using the pip3 command to grab it from github, it'd install the latest version but installed as "UNKNOWN-0.0.0". Upgrading pip fixed it.

I went to install openai-whisper, and the openai-whisper-20250625 would give a warning:
Requested unknown from https://(...redacted for brevity) has inconsistent name: filename has 'openai-whisper', but metadata has 'unknown'

then it'd fall back and install openai-whisper-20240930 instead.

Or if I installed using the "install the lastest from github" method, it'd install the current version, but install it as UNKNOWN-0.0.0 giving a warning about the egg data needing to be fixed.

My setuptools and packaging were up to date (running "pip3 install -U setuoptools" and "pip3 install -U packaging" are the other two recommendations for this type of issue) -- but I was still running some pip 23.x version. I ran "pip3 install -U pip", it installed pip-25.2, and when I then ran "pip3 install -U openai-whisper" it installed the 20250625 version with no issue.

Figured I'd mention it in case anyone else runs into this issue. I imagine some who have just didn't notice they are running 20240930 instead, since it results in whisper being installed anyway.