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I am trying to install this library on Mac OSx 10.11 using this command:

sudo -H pip install lxml

While I keep getting this message:

#include "libxml/xpath.h"
         ^
1 error generated.
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Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed?
Perhaps try: xcode-select --install
*********************************************************************************
error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1

Yet I am pretty sure that libxml2 is installed here:

/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.2/include/libxml2

I used brew to install this package. There shouldn't be any problem. How should I fix it?

SaidbakR
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  • Possible duplicate of [Getting "Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed?" when installing lxml through pip](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33785755/getting-could-not-find-function-xmlcheckversion-in-library-libxml2-is-libxml2) – Stevoisiak Feb 13 '18 at 15:38

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Homebrew doesn't link libxml and libxslt to avoid conflicts. You need to --force them. 

brew link libxml2 --force
brew link libxslt --force

I faced this problem when I upgraded to latest OS X. I wrote a blog post on it detailing the issue.

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