I had a freash installation of pop os, installed pip and I updated everything usig the following command
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
now I want to install the pynput module so I tried the following command
pip install pynput
But I got the following error
Collecting pynput
Using cached pynput-1.7.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (99 kB)
Collecting evdev>=1.3; "linux" in sys_platform
Using cached evdev-1.4.0.tar.gz (26 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: six in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from pynput) (1.15.0)
Requirement already satisfied: python-xlib>=0.17; "linux" in sys_platform in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from pynput) (0.27)
Building wheels for collected packages: evdev
Building wheel for evdev (setup.py) ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /usr/bin/python3 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-x6x_dhp2/evdev/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-x6x_dhp2/evdev/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-98m4gy5x
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-x6x_dhp2/evdev/
Complete output (29 lines):
running bdist_wheel
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.8
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.8/evdev
copying evdev/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.8/evdev
copying evdev/ecodes.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.8/evdev
copying evdev/events.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.8/evdev
copying evdev/ff.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.8/evdev
copying evdev/uinput.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.8/evdev
copying evdev/eventio_async.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.8/evdev
copying evdev/util.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.8/evdev
copying evdev/genecodes.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.8/evdev
copying evdev/evtest.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.8/evdev
copying evdev/eventio.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.8/evdev
copying evdev/device.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.8/evdev
running build_ext
running build_ecodes
writing ecodes.c (using /usr/include/linux/input.h /usr/include/linux/input-event-codes.h /usr/include/linux/uinput.h)
building 'evdev._input' extension
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.8
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.8/evdev
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -g -fwrapv -O2 -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python3.8 -c evdev/input.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.8/evdev/input.o -std=c99 -Wno-error=declaration-after-statement
evdev/input.c:10:10: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
10 | #include <Python.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Failed building wheel for evdev
Running setup.py clean for evdev
Failed to build evdev
Installing collected packages: evdev, pynput
Running setup.py install for evdev ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /usr/bin/python3 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] =
What to do now?
