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darksky
darksky

Reputation: 21039

PIP Install Failing

I am learning Python and the documentation I am following suggested installing Firebird. I ran sudo pip install fdb.

I saw a build directory which I understand just contains the source code and not the binaries so I deleted that. When I do pip freeze | grep fdb, I cannot find Firebird.

I tried running sudo pip install fdb again and I am getting this error now (and the build directory is returning):

Downloading/unpacking fdb
  Downloading fdb-0.9.9.tar.gz (481Kb): 481Kb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package fdb
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
      File "/Users/nayef/Documents/Django/build/fdb/setup.py", line 7, in <module>
        from fdb import __version__
      File "fdb/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
        from fdb.fbcore import *
      File "fdb/fbcore.py", line 26, in <module>
        from . import ibase
      File "fdb/ibase.py", line 1164, in <module>
        isc_attach_database = fb_library.isc_attach_database
      File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 366, in __getattr__
        func = self.__getitem__(name)
      File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 371, in __getitem__
        func = self._FuncPtr((name_or_ordinal, self))
    AttributeError: dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, isc_attach_database): symbol not found
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 14, in <module>

  File "/Users/nayef/Documents/Django/build/fdb/setup.py", line 7, in <module>

    from fdb import __version__

  File "fdb/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>

    from fdb.fbcore import *

  File "fdb/fbcore.py", line 26, in <module>

    from . import ibase

  File "fdb/ibase.py", line 1164, in <module>

    isc_attach_database = fb_library.isc_attach_database

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 366, in __getattr__

    func = self.__getitem__(name)

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 371, in __getitem__

    func = self._FuncPtr((name_or_ordinal, self))

AttributeError: dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, isc_attach_database): symbol not found

----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /Users/nayef/Documents/Django/build/fdb
Storing complete log in /Users/nayef/Library/Logs/pip.log

What am I doing wrong here? I'm not sure what's wrong with pip. I never faced any issues with it.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1340

Answers (1)

Yuval Adam
Yuval Adam

Reputation: 165282

This isn't pip failing, this is the fdb package installation failing.

It seems you have some drivers missing, specifically, the firebird header files.

Do you have firebird installed? Make sure you install the Python bindings only after the driver has been installed.

Upvotes: 5

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