Error installing gnureadline via pip

Question

I broke my IPython setup whilst trying to upgrade to IPython 2.0. The installation fails when gnureadline is being installed. I originally had this problem but I fixed it. Now I'm getting this error:

cc -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -arch x86_64 -arch i386 -Wl,-F. -Qunused-arguments -Qunused-arguments build/temp.macosx-10.9-intel-2.7/Modules/2.x/readline.o readline/libreadline.a readline/libhistory.a -lncurses -o build/lib.macosx-10.9-intel-2.7/gnureadline.so

clang: error: no such file or directory: 'readline/libreadline.a'

clang: error: no such file or directory: 'readline/libhistory.a'

error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/private/var/folders/jj/0w0dd3n16jq4g5579g6c7h040000gn/T/pip_build_root/gnureadline/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/jj/0w0dd3n16jq4g5579g6c7h040000gn/T/pip-iJITYv-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/jj/0w0dd3n16jq4g5579g6c7h040000gn/T/pip_build_root/gnureadline
Storing complete log in /Users/mc/Library/Logs/pip.log

Thanks for any help.

score 71 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

Reference: Ipython no readline available and pip install readline error

edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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answered Aug 19 '14 at 18:10

Nabarun Chatterjee

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install in terminal `sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev`, it is working fine and then `pip install gnureadline==6.3.3` – Tarek Kalaji Feb 26 '15 at 15:46

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 29 '15 at 03:00

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In addition to the above. The libffi package sorted it out for me.

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libffi-dev

answered Jun 29 '15 at 03:00

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 29 '19 at 18:32

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On OSX 10.14.5 -

brew install ncurses

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pip install gnureadline

answered Jun 29 '19 at 18:32

andorov

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 01 '17 at 07:45

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install in terminal sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev, it is working fine and then pip install gnureadline==6.3.3

answered Feb 01 '17 at 07:45

Aditya Rajak

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 21 '17 at 14:22

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For Fedora users:

dnf install ncurses-devel

answered Apr 21 '17 at 14:22

batisteo

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Error installing gnureadline via pip

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