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Marwan Sabry
Marwan Sabry

Reputation: 85

Error installing module with pip on Ubuntu 15.10

I have trouble installing modules using pip, for example

sudo -H pip3 install kivy

returns this error

 error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

----------------------------------------
Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-b3rwh_e6/kivy/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-bev6v2mx-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-b3rwh_e6/kivy/

I am fairly new to python and to programming in general so I'm probably doing something wrong, it's probably worth mentioning that I have python2.7 and python3.5 installed, and installing the packages python3.5-dev and build-essential didn't fix it.

Edit: build log: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5e3GD1lfCbUZ19LU3RENzY4MU0/view?usp=sharing

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1507

Answers (2)

nir0s
nir0s

Reputation: 1171

Packages which include C extensions require compilation and so might require both gcc and python-dev (and in some cases gcc-c++).

run:

sudo apt-get install gcc python-dev

prior to pip installing your package.

Upvotes: 1

Webbati
Webbati

Reputation: 36

Have you tried to install 

sudo apt-get install python-dev

for python2.7 ?

From the official site

https://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation-linux.html

for python 2

sudo apt-get install python-kivy

for python 3

sudo apt-get install python3-kivy

Upvotes: 0

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