Failure to fully pip install modules from requirements.txt file

[LeoMcBills]

When:

pip install -r requirements.txt

A failure occurs immediately when trying to fetch matplotlib. Below is the error message given.

(grad) PS C:\Users\AND1\Desktop\grad\gradient_design-main> pip install -r .\requirements.txt
Collecting cycler==0.10.0 (from -r .\requirements.txt (line 1))
Using cached cycler-0.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (722 bytes)
Collecting kiwisolver==1.2.0 (from -r .\requirements.txt (line 2))
Using cached kiwisolver-1.2.0.tar.gz (52 kB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Installing backend dependencies ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting matplotlib==3.2.1 (from -r .\requirements.txt (line 3))
Using cached matplotlib-3.2.1.tar.gz (40.3 MB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [29 lines of output]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\AND1\Desktop\grad\gradient_design-main\grad\Lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 353, in
main()
File "C:\Users\AND1\Desktop\grad\gradient_design-main\grad\Lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 335, in main
json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\AND1\Desktop\grad\gradient_design-main\grad\Lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return hook(config_settings)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\AND1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-dowi4gns\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 327, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\AND1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-dowi4gns\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 297, in _get_build_requires
self.run_setup()
File "C:\Users\AND1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-dowi4gns\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 497, in run_setup
super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
File "C:\Users\AND1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-dowi4gns\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 313, in run_setup
exec(code, locals())
File "", line 50, in
File "C:\Users\AND1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-zy_wqve6\matplotlib_009d5cc1ecbc4e57ad4a57037bc500f3\versioneer.py", line 1410, in get_version
return get_versions()["version"]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\AND1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-zy_wqve6\matplotlib_009d5cc1ecbc4e57ad4a57037bc500f3\versioneer.py", line 1344, in get_versions
cfg = get_config_from_root(root)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\AND1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-zy_wqve6\matplotlib_009d5cc1ecbc4e57ad4a57037bc500f3\versioneer.py", line 401, in get_config_from_root
parser = configparser.SafeConfigParser()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'configparser' has no attribute 'SafeConfigParser'. Did you mean: 'RawConfigParser'?
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.