distributed 1.21.8 requires msgpack, which is not installed - Fixed

The error distributed 1.21.8 requires msgpack, which is not installed may be caused due to the way anaconda is installed, the solution for this is to install msgpack as administrator.

What is "distributed 1.21.8 requires msgpack, which is not installed"?

I looked at various options for installing this package, but none of them worked.

Some people may believe it is due to ploty installation, but it has nothing to do with ploty installation.

It might be the reason how anaconda is installed it may get so frustrating!

The error will not affect the installation/upgrades of any of the packages.

"pip install msgpack" does not fix the problem". It will not fix until you try to install msgpack with user admin(Windows) / root(linux).

Following is the error message you get:

distributed 1.21.8 requires msgpack, which is not installed.

How to resolve blocked a frame with origin "null" from accessing a cross-origin frame?

I resolved it using either of the following two solutions:

Solution 1:
The first method is to run the following command to resolve the issue:

conda install -c anaconda msgpack-python

Solution 2:
The second method is to run Anaconda Prompt Administrator to run the following command:

pip install msgpack

Download msgpack file using this link, then navigate till setup.py file in command prompt and execute python.

Conclusion:
In this article, we discussed how to deal with errors` distributed 1.21.8 requires msgpack, which is not installed and figured out the way to tackle this issue is to install msgpack along with anaconda.