ImportError: The 'enchant' C library was not found. Please install it via your OS package manager, or use a pre-built binary wheel from PyPI

Question

The question is why I see the error message in the title when trying to import enchant. I am using Win64.

Durden

Answer 1

I found the answer in this GitHub page.

In a nutshell, they have not shipped a wheel for the win_amd64 platform yet.

Durden

Is there a resolution to this? I am trying to use it on Windows 10 64 bit in Python 3.4.3. – Audet

One solution is to use 32 bit python 2.7 as mentioned in #37771727 (Indigo8's answer) – Interviewee

Is there a solution to this for Pydroid? Trying to write on my mobile but its returning this error – Fiddlehead

Answer 2

On Ubuntu, run sudo apt-get install libenchant1c2a

Candlefish

Didn't work. This did sudo apt-get install python-enchant – Readability

For search engines. Related answers are often what people are actually looking for. Seems like stack exchange is more for looking for general answers than a user-to-user site – Andesite

sudo apt-get install -y python3-enchant worked for me. – Trident

Answer 3

Resolved: On Win7-64 I ran

pip3 install pyenchant==1.6.6

which seems to be the latest version of PyEnchant that still shipped with Win-64 binaries. Newer versions did not install for me, but this one did.

Udela

Answer 4

For amazon ubuntu instance use.

yum install enchant 

and then

pip install pyenchant

Desantis

Ubuntu doesn't have yum. – Manamanacle

for Ubuntu use sudo apt-get install enchant and then pip install pyenchant – Thump

Answer 5

For me, the problem I ran into was that I had an old version of pip. I installed the latest version and was able to download the pyenchant library.

pip install -U pip

Blooper

Answer 6

On Windows x64 I've solved this problem as follows:

• Click link https://pypi.org/project/pyenchant/#files and download pyenchant-2.0.0.win32.exe
• Launch it and while installing it using the installation wizard you must specify your python interpreter location which in my case is:

C:\Users\Asus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\python.exe

Important:İf you use python32 interpreter you must specify this location:

C:\Users\Asus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\python.exe

if you use python 3.5 interpreter version your location may be like this:

C:\Users\Asus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\python.exe

and finish the installation. Pip commands will work now for other dependency packages.

Roddie

Answer 7

To run with docker on AWS:

1. With apt-get:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install enchant-2

2. With apt:

sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install enchant-2

Thank you

Plumbum

Answer 8

On MacOS, you can install it via brew:

brew install enchant
pip install pyenchant

Giraud

Answer 9

I have fix the bugs on the colab.

!apt update !apt install enchant --fix-missing

After fixing the missing files, you could run the enchant.

Overstride

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Answer 10

Steps to resolve are as-

1. First check the operating system as below

import platform
os_type = platform.system()
print(f"Operating System Type: {os_type}")

2. If it is Linux, Then take sudo update and follow next steps, for other operating system follow this page https://pyenchant.github.io/pyenchant/install.html

!sudo apt-get update

3. Then check which libenchant version is in apt-cache

!apt-cache search libenchant

4. Insall libenchant accordingly

!sudo apt-get install libenchant{cached_version}

Loram

Answer 11

Updated answer for Debian-based Linux distros (e.g. Ubuntu) as of May 2024

The package name for enchant is now named "enchant-2". If you're running into this issue on a Ubuntu, its flavors, or a similar Debian-based distro, ensure you have tried sudo apt-get install enchant-2.

Soppy