ERROR: Could not build wheels for pyaudio, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

Question

I'm getting this error when trying to install PyAudio:

ERROR: Could not build wheels for pyaudio, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to solve?

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Hypoplasia

always put FULL error message (starting at word "Traceback") in question (not in comments) as text (not screenshot, not link to external portal). There are other useful information in the full error/traceback. – Babiche

when you run pip then you may use option -v (like verbose) to see more information when pip displays error. Without FULL error it is hard to say what is the problem. As I know PyAudio may use some C/C++ code and it may have problem with compilation. It may need to use homebrew in install some C/C++ libraries or C/C++ source codes with files .h. But all this need more information about error. OR you should check other question for this problem with PyAudio – Babiche

Hi @Babiche thanks for your reply - I have included the full message below – Hypoplasia

Acredito que esse link pode lhe ajudar PyAudio – Kierkegaard

@penguin-dev 's solution in the comments below solved my issue, in case this is something you still haven't figured out. – Dashtikavir

Does this answer your question? Unable to install PyAudio on M1 Mac [PortAudio already installed] – Amphicoelous

Answer 1

Try this solution:

These steps worked on M1 Pro chips

1. Install portaudio

brew install portaudio

2. Link portaudio

brew link portaudio

3. Copy the path where portaudio was installed (use it in the next step)

brew --prefix portaudio

4. Create .pydistutils.cfg in your home directory

sudo nano $HOME/.pydistutils.cfg

then paste the following

[build_ext]
include_dirs=<PATH FROM STEP 3>/include/
library_dirs=<PATH FROM STEP 3>/lib/

5. Install pyaudio

pip install pyaudio

or

pip3 install pyaudio

from: Unable to install PyAudio on M1 Mac [PortAudio already installed]

Disarming

Answer the question in text not as a screenshot – Trophic

This helped fix my pyaudio install issues. Thank you! This works for M1 chip macOS issues. – Dashtikavir

many thanks!! -- from a M1 user – Aultman

You are a genius! Repaired my issue on an M1 mac. – Frayne

2018 mac intel works as well! – Mongolism

For me, a mere brew install portaudio was enough in Intel Mac – Ronnaronnholm

I hadn't seen heilala's comment, but I didn't use sudo in step 4 and my problem is resolved. – Phoenician

for me the key was to use pip3 instead of pip – Pardoner

This worked for me for python 3.12 on Ubuntu (note that there is "3" in python3-all-dev): sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev python3-all-dev and pip install pyaudio – Orlene

Answer 2

Developments files are needed. Those files are installed with the portaudio19-dev package.

sudo apt install portaudio19-dev

Ballman

this also work on ubuntu 22! thanks – Wade

Worked on Ubuntu 23.04 – Supinate

Worked on Ubuntu 20.04, thank you – Olathe

Also works in Debian 12 – Wehrmacht

Worked on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS.. Thank you. – Arena

Answer 3

When I use docker to dockerize my flask application I recieved this error so I solved this problem with this command. I just paste this in my Dockerfile

apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
        libportaudio2 libportaudiocpp0 portaudio19-dev \
        python3-dev \
        build-essential \
        && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

Tridentine

Answer 4

I had this error building my own package and it was fixed by ending the pip install statement with --user

Shadowgraph

Answer 5

you can use below line for Mac OS

$ python3 -m venv tensorflow-metal-test
$ source tensorflow-metal-test/bin/activate
$ cd tensorflow-metal-test/
$ python -m pip install -U pip
$ pip install tensorflow-macos
$ pip install tensorflow-metal

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