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.

Answer 1

On Ubuntu, run sudo apt-get install libenchant1c2a

Answer 2

I found the answer in this GitHub page.

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

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.

Answer 4

For amazon ubuntu instance use.

yum install enchant 

and then

pip install pyenchant

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