How to fix pyaudio 'fatal error: portaudio.h: No such file or directory'
Problem:
You are trying to install pyaudio
using sudo pip install pyaudio
or a similar command but you see an error message like
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 "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-jgxnwixs/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-c3blzlv5-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-jgxnwixs/pyaudio/
Solution
You need to install the portaudio library. On Debian/Ubuntu you can do that using
sudo apt install portaudio19-dev
on other systems either search for portaudio
in your package manager or download the library fromĀ http://www.portaudio.com/