Error while installation of Huggingface Tranformers

[parthe]

• pip version: 20.2.2
• Python version: 3.6.10
• Operating system: Ubuntu

Error message when installing transformers library:
pip install transformers

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/s3transfer-0.3.3.dist-info/METADATA'

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Full error message

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 3021, in _dep_map
return self.__dep_map
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2815, in getattr
raise AttributeError(attr)
AttributeError: _DistInfoDistribution__dep_map

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 3012, in _parsed_pkg_info
return self._pkg_info
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2815, in getattr
raise AttributeError(attr)
AttributeError: _pkg_info

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/commands/install.py", line 535, in _determine_conflicts
return check_install_conflicts(to_install)
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/operations/check.py", line 108, in check_install_conflicts
package_set, _ = create_package_set_from_installed()
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/operations/check.py", line 50, in create_package_set_from_installed
package_set[name] = PackageDetails(dist.version, dist.requires())
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2736, in requires
dm = self._dep_map
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 3023, in _dep_map
self.__dep_map = self._compute_dependencies()
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 3032, in _compute_dependencies
for req in self._parsed_pkg_info.get_all('Requires-Dist') or []:
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 3014, in _parsed_pkg_info
metadata = self.get_metadata(self.PKG_INFO)
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 1420, in get_metadata
value = self._get(path)
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/init.py", line 1616, in _get
with open(path, 'rb') as stream:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/s3transfer-0.3.3.dist-info/METADATA'

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