I'm trying to install libxml2 since I came to know this is dependency for lxml. Facing issues like:
Could not find dependencies
Any idea how to install libxml2?
My python version is 3.5.2.
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1OS version? Are you using Linux, Windows or OSX? – Athena Jul 01 '16 at 15:00
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1lxml2 is not a Python package, it's a system lib. How to install it depends on your system. – bruno desthuilliers Jul 01 '16 at 15:00
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Official documentation has the installation steps for Linux, Mac OS and Windows.
To install lxml on Ubuntu, you first will need to install the binary dependencies:
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python-dev
Then you will be able to install lxml using pip:
pip install lxml
You cannot install libxml or libxslt using pip as they are not Python packages.
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To install it on non-Ubuntu Linux systems, check the comments on this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35872362/4995840 – A N Dec 10 '19 at 19:28