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installing libraries

the python program i want to run needs libraries installed like yfinance to run. how do you install libraries on this site?

Beloved premium user Rverm | 2 posts | April 17, 2026, 2:21 p.m. | permalink

See https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/InstallingNewModules/

Staff glenn | 10464 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | April 17, 2026, 3:34 p.m. | permalink

04:44 ~ $ pip install alpaca==0.43.2 Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable Looking in links: /usr/share/pip-wheels ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement alpaca==0.43.2 (from versions: 1.0.0) ERROR: No matching distribution found for alpaca==0.43.2 04:45 ~ $

Beloved premium user Rverm | 2 posts | April 18, 2026, 4:46 a.m. | permalink

From the error message it looks like there's no such version, you can confirm on PyPI.

Staff pafk | 4053 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | April 20, 2026, 3:56 p.m. | permalink