Fail to install lxml using pip

Question

This is the command I used to install lxml:

sudo pip install lxml

And I got the following message in the Cleaning Up stage:

Cleaning up...
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools,     tokenize;__file__='/private/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-rUFjFN-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml
Storing debug log for failure in /Users/georgejor/Library/Logs/pip.log

After that, I got:

ImportError: No module named lxml

Please help. Thanks!

The following output is from pip.log:

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
  Removing temporary dir /private/tmp/pip_build_root...
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-rUFjFN-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 283, in run
    requirement_set.install(install_options, global_options, root=options.root_path)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req.py", line 1435, in install
    requirement.install(install_options, global_options, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req.py", line 706, in install
    cwd=self.source_dir, filter_stdout=self._filter_install, show_stdout=False)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/util.py", line 697, in call_subprocess
    % (command_desc, proc.returncode, cwd))
InstallationError: Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-rUFjFN-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml

This means that `lxml` was not properly installed. Do this `cat /Users/georgejor/Library/Logs/pip.log` and show that to us in the question. — Games Brainiac, Oct 10 '14 at 03:17
It looks like you don't have setuptools installed. Install setuptools using `pip install setuptools` — Games Brainiac, Oct 10 '14 at 03:21
When I run pip install setuptools, it shows: Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): setuptools in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python Cleaning up... — George Jor, Oct 10 '14 at 03:23
When you ran `pip install lxml`, did you get any error messages? — WKPlus, Oct 10 '14 at 03:25
The log segment given isn't helpful. We need to know why the compile failed, not anything about the attempted cleanup _after_ the compile. If I were to place money on the issue, I'd put mine on @ragingSloth's answer (which I'm only not upvoting because I have serious issues with using SO as a forum for installation-support questions rather than programming questions). — Charles Duffy, Oct 10 '14 at 23:31
I had a similar problem but installing llvmlite, after many hours of debugging my friend found out that it was using the wrong version of LLVM. — gota, Apr 23 '15 at 16:53

score 12 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 27 '14 at 21:03

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Just install these stuff :

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev  python-dev  python-setuptools

Then try again :

pip install lxml

answered Nov 27 '14 at 21:03

Kiru Prem

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this worked for me. Although blindly copying various programs to install I have no idea about is known not to be a good idea but it did work :-) – Martin Nov 02 '15 at 00:19

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '14 at 22:02

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lxml has C depenedencies, often I run into issues when I'm missing libxslt or libxml2. Are you sure that all non python dependencies are installed?

answered Oct 10 '14 at 22:02

ragingSloth

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I'm on Linux, trying to install llvmlite and this didn't work for me – gota Apr 23 '15 at 16:24

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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Here is a similar question.

Error installing Pillow (and PIL)

Are you using a MacOS? Maybe you can try to update the commandline tools and try 'brew' tool. If not, you can try to install pip and easy_intall tools again, and update it.

https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html

edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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answered Oct 10 '14 at 05:30

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