How to install libraries that require compilation on google-colaboratory

Question

When trying to install a library that requires cmake like this:

!pip install dlib

the notebook returns the following error:

error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'cmake': 'cmake'

Answer 1

You can use apt commands on google-colaboratory, so you can easily install cmake:

!apt update
!apt install -y cmake
!pip install dlib