I have installed pillow using pip3 but pyautogui fails with error code 1

Question

Every forum I have looked at says that:

pip install pillow

remedies issues with installing pyautogui, however, I have installed pillow and I am still receiving:

python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1

Any suggestions? I also tried installing PIL but that failed as well with the same error.

Did you run the command as an administrator? – pp_ Feb 18 '16 at 08:00 — pp_, Feb 18 '16 at 08:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 18 '16 at 08:02

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Have you tried to upgrade your setuptools? What version of it you use? Try this:

pip install --upgrade setuptools

If you have not installed setuptools, use:

pip install setuptools

answered Feb 18 '16 at 08:02

sprtnbst

I upgraded setuptools and tried running as an admin but it still throws the same error. Strange because I have installed several other packages with no incident. – cc77 Feb 19 '16 at 08:41

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

To anybody else who has this problem with this - I have found a solution here

Use the workaround he provides for pyobjc-core

pip3 install https://github.com/GreatFruitOmsk/pyobjc-core/releases/download/v3.0.5.dev0/pyobjc-core-3.0.5.tar.gz

(as is said on the other page, I did not write this so use at own risk - but worked for me)

and then

pip install pyautogui

Thanks to Timo Krall and Kentzo.

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