Installing pyaudio with pip in a virtualenv

Question

I'm trying to install pyaudio with pip:

pip install pyaudio

In a virtualenv but I'm getting an error:

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

Entire output:

Collecting pyaudio
  Using cached PyAudio-0.2.9.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: pyaudio
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pyaudio ... error
  Complete output from command /home/mertyildiran/Downloads/VirtualEnvironment/vir1/Cerebrum/ENV/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-GCltlv/pyaudio/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/tmpyR6J73pip-wheel- --python-tag cp27:
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  creating build
  creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7
  copying src/pyaudio.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7
  running build_ext
  building '_portaudio' extension
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src
  x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c src/_portaudiomodule.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/_portaudiomodule.o
  src/_portaudiomodule.c:29:23: fatal error: portaudio.h: No such file or directory
   #include "portaudio.h"
                         ^
  compilation terminated.
  error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for pyaudio
  Running setup.py clean for pyaudio
Failed to build pyaudio
Installing collected packages: pyaudio
  Running setup.py install for pyaudio ... error
    Complete output from command /home/mertyildiran/Downloads/VirtualEnvironment/vir1/Cerebrum/ENV/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-GCltlv/pyaudio/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-icMIUV-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/mertyildiran/Downloads/VirtualEnvironment/vir1/Cerebrum/ENV/include/site/python2.7/pyaudio:
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7
    copying src/pyaudio.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7
    running build_ext
    building '_portaudio' extension
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src
    x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c src/_portaudiomodule.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/_portaudiomodule.o
    src/_portaudiomodule.c:29:23: fatal error: portaudio.h: No such file or directory
     #include "portaudio.h"
                           ^
    compilation terminated.
    error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

    ----------------------------------------
Command "/home/mertyildiran/Downloads/VirtualEnvironment/vir1/Cerebrum/ENV/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-GCltlv/pyaudio/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-icMIUV-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/mertyildiran/Downloads/VirtualEnvironment/vir1/Cerebrum/ENV/include/site/python2.7/pyaudio" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-GCltlv/pyaudio

What am I doing wrong? I'm new in virtualenvs.

*I'm able to install other packages. I'm facing with an error only for pyaudio package.

By the way I'm in the environment:

(ENV) mertyildiran@Corsair:~/Downloads/VirtualEnvironment/vir1/MyProject$

if you're on ubuntu `sudo apt-get install libasound-dev` - http://portaudio.com/docs/v19-doxydocs/compile_linux.html — dm03514, Feb 29 '16 at 19:53
I'm in the virtualenv probably this package is not installed to my virtualenv. How can I install this package to virtualenv? Normally I'm able to install pyaudio from pip. But I'm in virtualenv. — mertyildiran, Feb 29 '16 at 19:55
@dm03514 On the other hand is there a way for install only using pip. Because I'm preparing a package for distribution. — mertyildiran, Feb 29 '16 at 19:56

score 38 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 26 '18 at 21:37

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This worked for me, I had the same problem:

if you want to install PyAudio inside a virtualenv, install the PortAudio development headers from APT, then PyAudio:

sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev
pip install --allow-unverified=pyaudio pyaudio

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edited Feb 26 '18 at 21:37

edelans

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answered Jul 24 '16 at 00:06

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This worked, didn't even need to do the --allow-unverified tag – Simon Unsworth Sep 04 '17 at 01:18
Thanks a lot @Alejandro – Abhishek Raj Jul 02 '18 at 14:15
just the first install command line , it works for me! I am in ubuntu 18.04 – albert yu Apr 11 '19 at 09:07

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 29 '16 at 20:09

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Some packages require the support of non-Python software, such as shared libraries. These cannot be installed via pip (they're not Python packages!). You generally install these on the host using your host's package manager (apt-get or yum or dnf, etc...), or you use something like Docker to encapsulate both the dependencies and your application.

In your case, pyaudio requires a number of libraries, including at least portaudio. You will need to install the appropriate development packages on your system, as suggested in the comments on your question.

answered Feb 29 '16 at 20:09

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Or can you suggest me a different package with same functionality and pip installation? – mertyildiran Feb 29 '16 at 20:13
Pretty much any package that provides audio support is going to require additional third-party libraries. There is a package for PyAudio because that is a Python package. The `portaudio` library that it requires is not. – larsks Feb 29 '16 at 20:19
OK One last question: Are pyaudio or dependencies for installing pyaudio from pip, coming by default with pretty much every Ubuntu distribution or not? I will ignore this issue if so. – mertyildiran Feb 29 '16 at 20:24
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The `portaudio` library is *available* for Ubuntu, yes, but it may need to be installed explicitly (`apt-get install portaudio19-dev`). You could also simply install the `pyaudio` package (`apt-get install python-pyaudio`), which would take care of all the dependencies for you. – larsks Feb 29 '16 at 20:30

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered May 18 '18 at 10:47

Following steps worked for me :) Please go through and try

1  sudo apt-get install libasound-dev
2  sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev
3  pip install pyaudio --user

OR (--user dont work then try python3-pyaudio)

sudo apt-get install python3-pyaudio

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 11 '19 at 11:23

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In new Python 3.0 pyaudio can install in windows use following command: pip3 install pyaudio.

answered Jan 11 '19 at 11:23

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score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Apr 29 '19 at 15:38

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If you want to install pyaudio in virtual environment in windows first you need to download PyAudio-0.2.11-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl this file in [https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/] here and then open command prompt and go to the path where your downloaded file located and type pip install PyAudio-0.2.11-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl

edited Apr 29 '19 at 15:38

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answered Apr 29 '19 at 15:29

Naveen Joshi

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