Hi everyone,

I am trying to install POT on an Ubuntu 16.04 with Anaconda and

• Python 3.6
• Cython 0.28.3
• Numpy 1.14.5
• Scipy 1.1.0
• Matplotlib 2.2.2

using the instructions on http://pot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

When executing pip install POT, I obtain the following error message.

`
Collecting pot
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/50/66/714ee432a02e95a869c8e243e369ebad60e69a72ab1a72367c31df206619/POT-0.4.0.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/pip-install-4awvn1uv/pot/setup.py", line 26, in
import pypandoc
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pypandoc'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/tmp/pip-install-4awvn1uv/pot/setup.py", line 29, in <module>
    README = open(os.path.join(ROOT, 'README.md')).read()
  File "/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 5501: ordinal not in range(128)

----------------------------------------

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-4awvn1uv/pot/
`

However, if I do conda install -c conda-forge pot, it updates

• ca-certificates
• certifi
• conda
• openssl

and then it installs successfully POT.

I have installed POT on OSX with pip successfully with a similar anaconda setup.