Cannot install pyaudio, gcc error

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Trying to install pyaudio with instructions per here:

$ git clone http://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/git/pyaudio.git
$ cd pyaudio
$ sudo python setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building '_portaudio' extension
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
In file included from /usr/include/python2.7/Python.h:8:0,
                 from src/_portaudiomodule.c:28:
/usr/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h:1161:0: warning: "_POSIX_C_SOURCE" redefined [enabled by default]
/usr/include/features.h:215:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
src/_portaudiomodule.c:29:23: fatal error: portaudio.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

What's going wrong in my installation?

gcc can't find the PortAudio header files, did you install the PortAudio dev package (e.g. `apt-get install libportaudio-dev` for ubuntu)? As a side note, at least in ubuntu pyaudio is already in the repository for both python 2 and 3, and can be installed via `apt-get install python(3)-pyaudio`. — l4mpi, Nov 16 '13 at 20:10
Possible cross-post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5921947/pyaudio-installation-error-command-gcc-failed-with-exit-status-1?rq=1 — Paul, Dec 09 '15 at 17:11
what worked for me is Cerin's comment in AI_ROBOT's answer. Using Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS — YoussefDir, Oct 12 '21 at 05:43

score 63 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 07 '21 at 23:46

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Sorry about the inappropriate answer last time, I will post the solution of the question. It might be helpful for Ubuntu distributions.

First we need to install portaudio modules: sudo apt-get install libasound-dev
Download the portaudio archive from: http://files.portaudio.com/download.html
Unzip the archive: tar -zxvf [portaudio.tgz]
Enter the directory, then run: ./configure && make
Install: sudo make install
And finally: sudo pip install pyaudio
Check the version of pyaudio, it should be 0.2.9

edited Jan 07 '21 at 23:46

Hugo Amorim

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answered Feb 24 '16 at 04:42

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You don't need to download tarballs. You can just do `sudo apt-get install libasound-dev portaudio19-dev libportaudio2 libportaudiocpp0` – Cerin Dec 08 '16 at 02:44
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@Cerin, That actually didn't work for me, so I had to follow the tarball instructions, so it's working. – alex Jul 09 '17 at 21:37
@alex What OS are you on? It worked fine for me on Ubuntu 16.04. – Cerin Jul 10 '17 at 03:13
@Cerin, 16.04 as well, for some reason the apt-get method couldn't locate the package. There was also a seg-fault somewhere in there as well, I think when I did apt-get update. That's probably a different issue that I'm going to have to figure out eventually. But I did manage to get the portaudio working from the tar file. – alex Jul 10 '17 at 21:18
Thanks. As yum has restricted only for local repo, for centos this solution worked me. – Shahid Hussain Sep 23 '19 at 11:09
@Cerin Works fine on Ubuntu 18.04 as well – Nukul Khadse Apr 09 '20 at 02:55
In case you can't install libasound-dev just follow look at that link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-lib/+bug/264534 – Tarlan Ahad Jun 12 '22 at 12:27

score 24 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 16 '18 at 16:01

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This worked for me:

sudo apt-get install libasound-dev portaudio19-dev libportaudio2 libportaudiocpp0
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libav-tools
sudo pip install pyaudio

edited Mar 16 '18 at 16:01

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answered Mar 16 '18 at 15:16

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score 21 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 29 '16 at 00:50

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On Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install python-pyaudio

or

sudo apt-get install python3-pyaudio

answered Mar 29 '16 at 00:50

Aaron

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sudo apt-get install python3-pyaudio worked perfecly. thanks. 02/2022 – drascom Feb 11 '22 at 11:08

score 13 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 09 '19 at 11:13

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Install 2 things,

sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev python-pyaudio

and then,

pip install pyaudio

answered Dec 09 '19 at 11:13

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score 7 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 10 '18 at 05:56

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For Centos7:

sudo yum install -y portaudio-devel
sudo pip install pyaudio

answered Apr 10 '18 at 05:56

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score 6 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 15 '19 at 18:24

For Windows :

Install using pip:

 python -m pip install pyaudio

if pip is not already bundled with your installation of Python, get it here.

For Mac OS X :

Use Homebrew to install the prerequisite portaudio library, then install PyAudio using pip:

 brew install portaudio
 pip install pyaudio

pip will download the PyAudio source and build it for your version of Python.

For Debian/Ubuntu :

Use the package manager to install PyAudio:

 sudo apt-get install python-pyaudio python3-pyaudio

If the latest version of PyAudio is not available, install it using pip:

pip install pyaudio

For better isolation from system packages, consider installing PyAudio in a virtual environment

PyAudio Source :

Source is available for download at the Python Package Index (PyPI): here!

Or clone the git repository:

git clone https://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/git/pyaudio.git

credits: PyAudio and GitHub:Speech_Recognition

Sindhukumari P · Answer 7 · 2021-05-12T18:54:47.210

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First we need to install portaudio modules: sudo apt-get install libasound-dev
Download the portaudio archive from: http://portaudio.com/download.html
Unzip the archive: tar -zxvf [portaudio.tgz]
Enter the directory, then run: ./configure && make
Install: sudo make install
And Then: sudo pip install pyaudio
Update & Upgrade the system to fix all broken libraries
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

edited May 12 '21 at 18:54

answered Dec 14 '18 at 12:00

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score 2 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 17 '21 at 11:14

sudo apt-get install libasound-dev portaudio19-dev libportaudio2 libportaudiocpp0
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg# libav-tools
sudo pip install pyaudio

as sayantan ghosh told (in my case, it's error with libav-tools) and

sudo apt-get install python3-pyaudio

as Aaron told, then pip install pyaudio

these steps works for me, Im in ubuntu 20.04

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Aug 19 '22 at 12:00

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this is work for me

sudo apt-get install libasound-dev portaudio19-dev libportaudio2 libportaudiocpp0

After that run this command

pip install pyaudio --user

answered Aug 19 '22 at 12:00

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score 0 · Answer 10 · edited Dec 11 '20 at 09:41

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I am using kali linux 2.0, do as follows:

apt-get install portaudio19-dev python-pyaudio

then:

pip install pyaudio

this worked for me.

edited Dec 11 '20 at 09:41

Mansoor Ahmed Memon

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answered Dec 10 '20 at 00:26

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score 0 · Answer 11 · edited Dec 19 '20 at 10:04

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Download PyAudio from the link below: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyaudio Then, install this file using the command:

pip install (complete filepath)

Example:

pip install C:\Users\(Username)\Downloads\PyAudio-0.2.11-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl

edited Dec 19 '20 at 10:04

Anurag A S

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answered Dec 19 '20 at 06:38

score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Aug 24 '21 at 07:27

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On Manjaro(Arch Linux) sudo pacman -S python-pyaudio

answered Aug 24 '21 at 07:27

Arindip Dutta

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Apr 04 '22 at 02:51

I came across this question while getting pyaudio working in an alpine linux container (python:3.9-alpine).

There were some additional packages to install in this case. I'll post what I had to do in case it's useful for someone.

apk add --no-cache py3-pyaudio portaudio-dev gcc musl-dev
pip install pyaudio

The pyaudio pip install needs gcc and also the dev files included in musl-dev package.

score 0 · Answer 14 · edited Apr 10 '22 at 00:52

I could resolved PyAudio error after a long search

Hope this can help someone.

First you find the python version using : python --version (check both Pycharm and JupyterLab as I had 3.7.6 and 3.10.4 different version and move to correct directory - I pasted the same version whl file in same directory "may be there is another way of doing it - suggestions welcome" )

Once this file is placed in the same directory - "PyAudio-0.2.11-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl" you can use pip install PyAudio-0.2.11-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl directly

Other findings :

In case the version and file not matching you will get this error

ERROR: PyAudio-0.2.11-cp310-cp310-win32.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.

simple "pip install pyaudio" will not work (As read on internet its not working beyond 3.6)

score -1 · Answer 15 · edited Aug 16 '21 at 04:35

Disclaimer - For Linux terminal command

Run pip install wheel
Download this https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition Inside above-mentioned folder
Run pip install ./third-party/WHEEL_FILENAME Here Choose your WHEEL from https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition/tree/master/third-party

mine was (Linux) - PyAudio-0.2.11.tar.gz

Then Finally Run: pip install ./third-party/PyAudio-0.2.11.tar.gz (replace pip with pip3 if using Python 3)

score -3 · Answer 16 · answered Jun 30 '20 at 12:05

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try this command pip install PyAudio

answered Jun 30 '20 at 12:05

Ab uph

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Welcome to SO! This solution was already mentioned in several answers ([for example](https://stackoverflow.com/a/57947026/6682517)). – Sergey Shubin Jun 30 '20 at 12:24

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