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This is due to outdated version of pip. Update your pip to the latest version should fix the issue.

pip3 install -U pip

References

• ERROR: Could not build wheels for scipy which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

• ERROR: Could not build wheels for numpy which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly