portaudio.h: No such file or directory

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I got the following error while trying to install pyaudio using pip3 in ubuntu 16.04:

Collecting pyaudio
  Downloading PyAudio-0.2.11.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: pyaudio
  Running setup.py install for pyaudio ... error
    Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-mxgvewdb/pyaudio/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-v55chjee-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.5
    copying src/pyaudio.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.5
    running build_ext
    building '_portaudio' extension
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5/src
    x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python3.5m -c src/_portaudiomodule.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5/src/_portaudiomodule.o
    src/_portaudiomodule.c:29:23: fatal error: portaudio.h: No such file or directory
    compilation terminated.
    error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

    ----------------------------------------
Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-mxgvewdb/pyaudio/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-v55chjee-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-mxgvewdb/pyaudio/

Possible duplicate of [Pyaudio installation error - 'command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1'](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5921947/pyaudio-installation-error-command-gcc-failed-with-exit-status-1) — Nikolay Shmyrev, Feb 09 '18 at 08:17
Nikolay is not a duplicate, given how that question is 7 years old and any answer provided will probably reference an old version and wont work on current OS — Manuel G, Jun 11 '18 at 08:21

score 81 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 27 '23 at 12:48

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This should help

sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev python-pyaudio python3-pyaudio

Tested on Ubuntu 18.04, Python 3.7.2, pyaudio 0.2.11

Added 8th of Jan 2021:

On Ubuntu 20.04 you have to use:

sudo apt install portaudio19-dev python3-pyaudio

edited Apr 27 '23 at 12:48

Smart Manoj

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answered Jan 28 '19 at 06:45

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Thanks. It worked on ubuntu 16.04. Finally it got installed after a long time. – Monojit Sarkar Jan 29 '19 at 15:25
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Works for ```Ubuntu 19.10```, ```Python 3.8.0```, ```pyaudio 0.2.11``` as well. – Austin Heller Jan 23 '20 at 01:35
Doesn't work on Ubuntu 20:04, please use this command instead: apt install portaudio19-dev python3-pyaudio – Romeo Kienzler Jan 08 '21 at 08:13

WMRamadan · Answer 2 · 2022-11-03T23:36:58.530

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For MacOS (Intel/Apple Silicon):

Step 1:

brew install portaudio

Step 2:

brew --prefix portaudio

The output provided from the above command, will be required in Step 3, which will look something similar to /opt/homebrew/opt/portaudio

Step 3:

Create .pydistutils.cfg in your home directory

sudo nano ~/.pydistutils.cfg

then paste the following in the file, save and exit

[build_ext]
include_dirs=<PATH FROM STEP 2>/include/
library_dirs=<PATH FROM STEP 2>/lib/

Step 4:

pip3 install pyaudio

edited Nov 03 '22 at 23:36

answered Dec 22 '20 at 15:25

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'pip3 install pyaudio fails src/_portaudiomodule.c:31:10: fatal error: 'portaudio.h' file not found – Simon Fakir Nov 03 '22 at 21:54
@SimonFakir More info is needed, OS version, platform (Intel/Apple Silicon)? – WMRamadan Nov 03 '22 at 23:04

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 26 '21 at 03:39

For Windows,
here's what I've been going through...

There're several ways to install PortAudio

vcpkg, https://vcpkg.info/port/portaudio
winget, https://winget.run/pkg/intxcc/pyaudio
Or, manually build from source and install manually
1. download source, http://files.portaudio.com/download.html
2. build with cmake, with the matching compiler(msvc/mingw) and arch(x64/x86) to your Python
3. put "portaudio.h" into python-include directory, e.g. c:\Python38-32\include\
4. put "portaudio.lib into python-lib directory, e.g. c:\Python38-32\libs

Arrh!
the "min()" macro in pyaudio's soucefile _portaudiomodule.c is troublesome, comment it out manually

pip install pyaudio --no-clean
find _portaudiomodule.c in the temp directory and manually comment-out the "min()" macro
e.g. c:\Temp\pip-install-yysb8bme\pyaudio_c92585\src\_portaudiomodule.c
pip install from that directory
e.g. pip install c:\Temp\pip-install-yysb8bme\pyaudio_c92585\

Or,3rd party wheels

this answer said:

pip install pipwin
pipwin install pyaudio

I could not find the min() macro in _portaudiomodule.c ? Could you give some more details here? — Simon Fakir, Nov 03 '22 at 22:01
@SimonFakir There might be several conflicting copy of "min()". Therefore, I have to remove it manually in my last trail. If you can't find it, that's fine. Congratulations, no conflict! — caoanan, Nov 08 '22 at 17:05

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 31 '19 at 07:10

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For Centos7/RHEL:

yum install portaudio-devel alsa-lib-devel portaudio
pip install pyaudio --user

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered May 09 '23 at 10:52

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For Arch/Manjaro/EndeavourOS/Parabola/Frugalware2/Chakra:

sudo pacman -Sy portaudio python-pyaudio

answered May 09 '23 at 10:52

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One doesn't have to install `python-pyaudio` globally. It can be installed per python environment. – Robert Brisita Jun 16 '23 at 13:50

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