Error installing python dependencies

FRB1984 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:14:06 GMT

Hi guys! At first, I am sorry if my question is dumb but I am newbie to Databricks!

I am just starting and as I try to install ibm_db as a dependency for my python notebook, I get this error :

Collecting ibm_db (from -r /tmp/tmp-e8a4538f00b7498fab13c2fccc095124-environment-requirements.txt (line 1)) Downloading ibm_db-3.2.6.tar.gz (262 kB) Installing build dependencies: started Installing build dependencies: finished with status 'done' Getting requirements to build wheel: started Getting requirements to build wheel: finished with status 'error' error: subprocess-exited-with-error × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> [20 lines of output] Detected 64-bit Python Detected platform = linux, uname = aarch64 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/local_disk0/.ephemeral_nfs/envs/pythonEnv-c4f0bb47-3788-41d1-b32a-14378e14fd53/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 389, in <module> main() File "/local_disk0/.ephemeral_nfs/envs/pythonEnv-c4f0bb47-3788-41d1-b32a-14378e14fd53/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 373, in main json_out["return_val"] = hook(**hook_input["kwargs"]) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/local_disk0/.ephemeral_nfs/envs/pythonEnv-c4f0bb47-3788-41d1-b32a-14378e14fd53/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 143, in get_requires_for_build_wheel return hook(config_settings) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 334, in get_requires_for_build_wheel return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[]) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 304, in _get_build_requires self.run_setup() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 320, in run_setup exec(code, locals()) File "<string>", line 376, in <module> NameError: name 'arch_' is not defined [end of output] note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. error: subprocess-exited-with-error × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> See above for output. note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. CalledProcessError: Command 'pip --disable-pip-version-check install -r '/tmp/tmp-e8a4538f00b7498fab13c2fccc095124-environment-requirements.txt'' returned non-zero exit status 1. File <command-8881428912448011>, line 1 ----> 1 get_ipython().run_line_magic('pip', "install -r '/tmp/tmp-e8a4538f00b7498fab13c2fccc095124-environment-requirements.txt'") 2 get_ipython().run_line_magic('restart_python', '') File /databricks/python_shell/lib/dbruntime/PipMagicOverrides.py:309, in PipMagicHandler.executePipCommand(self, result) 307 raise PipError(returncode, origCmd) 308 else: --> 309 raise subprocess.CalledProcessError(returncode, origCmd) 310 finally: 311 end = time.time()

Re: Error installing python dependencies

SP_6721 — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:37:55 GMT

Hi @FRB1984 ,

It looks like the ibm_db package doesn’t support the Python version currently used in your Databricks environment.
Instead of relying on ibm_db, you can use Spark’s JDBC connector with the IBM DB2 JDBC driver for a more stable and supported way to connect to DB2 from Databricks.

You can refer to this related post for setup guidance: https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/db2-jdbc-connection-from-databricks-cluster/m-p/108719#M43128

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