Cannot install pyaudio in google colab

Question

While I'm trying to run pip install PyAudio, I'm seeing the following error:

  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ab/42/b4f04721c5c5bfc196ce156b3c768998ef8c0ae3654ed29ea5020c749a6b/PyAudio-0.2.11.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: PyAudio
  Building wheel for PyAudio (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for PyAudio
  Running setup.py clean for PyAudio
Failed to build PyAudio
Installing collected packages: PyAudio
    Running setup.py install for PyAudio ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/bin/python3 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-o_0h_bmo/PyAudio/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-o_0h_bmo/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-record-8_ovxdkm/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile Check the logs for full command output.

Answer 1

You just need to remove libav-tools from apt install and run this command again.

!apt install libasound2-dev portaudio19-dev libportaudio2 libportaudiocpp0 ffmpeg

and then

!pip install PyAudio

You will be able to install it.