Diffusers course introduction-to-diffusers setup fails

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Beginner here trying to start the Diffusers course. When I try to run the 01_introduction_to_diffusers.ipynb notebook on Colab, I get errors at the first, setup, code cell:

%pip install -qq -U diffusers datasets transformers accelerate ftfy pyarrow==9.0.0

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Installing build dependencies … done
Getting requirements to build wheel … done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) … done
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error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Building wheel for pyarrow (pyproject.toml) 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.
Building wheel for pyarrow (pyproject.toml) … error
ERROR: Failed building wheel for pyarrow
ERROR: ERROR: Failed to build installable wheels for some pyproject.toml based projects (pyarrow)

I also tried this step in a venv on my local machine with the same result. Is something broken, or - more likely - is it me? Grateful for any help/advice.

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Same here.

%pip install -qq -U diffusers datasets transformers accelerate ftfy pyarrow==18.0.0

It worked.

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Thanks! I was nervous about the big version jump with 9.0.0 specified. And, I also had to update to fsspec==2025.3.2 to satisfy dependencies.

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