# Fail to install itk 5.3rc04.post3 in 3D Slicer

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/fail-to-install-itk-5-3rc04-post3-in-3d-slicer/35187>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** python\
**Created:** [March 31, 2024, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/fail-to-install-itk-5-3rc04-post3-in-3d-slicer/35187 "2024-03-31T12:47:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cheyuan\_Chang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/cheyuan_chang/32/69826_2.png) [@Cheyuan\_Chang](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Cheyuan_Chang)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2024, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/fail-to-install-itk-5-3rc04-post3-in-3d-slicer/35187/1 "2024-03-31T12:47:18Z")

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Hello, I am using 3Dslicer 5.7 and find problem with installing itk

Is there any problem to solve this installation problem?

The error code was posted below

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement itk-core==5.3rc04.post3 (from itk) (from versions: 5.1.1.post1, 5.1.2, 5.2.0, 5.2.0.post1, 5.2.0.post2, 5.2.1, 5.2.1.post1, 5.3rc4, 5.3rc4.post4, 5.3.0, 5.4rc1, 5.4rc2)  
ERROR: No matching distribution found for itk-core==5.3rc04.post3  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “”, line 1, in   
File “C:\Users\cycha\AppData\Local\slicer.org\Slicer 5.7.0-2023-12-31\bin\Python\slicer\util.py”, line 3887, in pip\_install  
\_executePythonModule(“pip”, args)  
File “C:\Users\cycha\AppData\Local\slicer.org\Slicer 5.7.0-2023-12-31\bin\Python\slicer\util.py”, line 3848, in \_executePythonModule  
logProcessOutput(proc)  
File “C:\Users\cycha\AppData\Local\slicer.org\Slicer 5.7.0-2023-12-31\bin\Python\slicer\util.py”, line 3814, in logProcessOutput  
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, proc.args, output=proc.stdout, stderr=proc.stderr)  
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command ‘[‘C:/Users/cycha/AppData/Local/slicer.org/Slicer 5.7.0-2023-12-31/bin/…/bin\PythonSlicer.EXE’, ‘-m’, ‘pip’, ‘install’, ‘–pre’, ‘itk==5.3rc4.post3’]’ returned non-zero exit status 1.

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/fail-to-install-itk-5-3rc04-post3-in-3d-slicer/35187/2 "2024-03-31T19:17:09Z")

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> [@Cheyuan\_Chang](#):
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> itk-core==5.3rc04.post3

It is normal that a some very specific ITK release candidate version like `5.3rc04.post3` is not available on all Python versions on all platforms.

Install a recent enough ITK version should work well. For example: `pip_install('itk-core>=5.3')`