Installing pyaudio with pip in a virtualenv

Question

I'm trying to install pyaudio with pip:

pip install pyaudio 

In a virtualenv but I'm getting an error:

error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1 

Entire output:

Collecting pyaudio   Using cached PyAudio-0.2.9.tar.gz Building wheels for collected packages: pyaudio   Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pyaudio ... error   Complete output from command /home/mertyildiran/Downloads/VirtualEnvironment/vir1/Cerebrum/ENV/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-GCltlv/pyaudio/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/tmpyR6J73pip-wheel- --python-tag cp27:   running bdist_wheel   running build   running build_py   creating build   creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7   copying src/pyaudio.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7   running build_ext   building '_portaudio' extension   creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7   creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src   x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c src/_portaudiomodule.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/_portaudiomodule.o   src/_portaudiomodule.c:29:23: fatal error: portaudio.h: No such file or directory    #include "portaudio.h"                          ^   compilation terminated.   error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1    ----------------------------------------   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     Complete output from command /home/mertyildiran/Downloads/VirtualEnvironment/vir1/Cerebrum/ENV/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-GCltlv/pyaudio/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-icMIUV-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/mertyildiran/Downloads/VirtualEnvironment/vir1/Cerebrum/ENV/include/site/python2.7/pyaudio:     running install     running build     running build_py     creating build     creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7     copying src/pyaudio.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7     running build_ext     building '_portaudio' extension     creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7     creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src     x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c src/_portaudiomodule.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/_portaudiomodule.o     src/_portaudiomodule.c:29:23: fatal error: portaudio.h: No such file or directory      #include "portaudio.h"                            ^     compilation terminated.     error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1      ---------------------------------------- Command "/home/mertyildiran/Downloads/VirtualEnvironment/vir1/Cerebrum/ENV/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-GCltlv/pyaudio/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-icMIUV-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/mertyildiran/Downloads/VirtualEnvironment/vir1/Cerebrum/ENV/include/site/python2.7/pyaudio" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-GCltlv/pyaudio 

What am I doing wrong? I'm new in virtualenvs.

*I'm able to install other packages. I'm facing with an error only for pyaudio package.

By the way I'm in the environment:

(ENV) mertyildiran@Corsair:~/Downloads/VirtualEnvironment/vir1/MyProject$ 

Answer 1

This worked for me, I had the same problem:

if you want to install PyAudio inside a virtualenv, install the PortAudio development headers from APT, then PyAudio:

sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev pip install --allow-unverified=pyaudio pyaudio 

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