Failed building wheel for twisted
I made virtualenv, new blank django project and I want to install Channels. I use Python 3.6.3. I typed pip install -U channels
and this is OUTPUT:
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Failed building wheel for twisted
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Command "/home/marcin/Documents/django_projects/channels/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-ic8ux9ei/twisted/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-ox6bclm5-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/marcin/Documents/django_projects/channels/include/site/python3.6/twisted" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-ic8ux9ei/twisted/
pip list
OUTPUT:
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Django (1.11.6)
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pip (9.0.1)
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setuptools (36.6.0)
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wheel (0.29.0)
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I see that I don't have Twisted, so I typed:pip install twisted
. This is OUTPUT:
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Failed building wheel for twisted
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Command "/home/marcin/Documents/django_projects/channels/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-a54n37_z/twisted/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-9p23ehnv-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/marcin/Documents/django_projects/channels/include/site/python3.6/twisted" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-a54n37_z/twisted/
As You can see the Outputs are almost the same. How can I install Channels?
The error message is not particularly helpful but it seems you are missing the python3.6-dev
package, which is installed using apt
:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3.6-dev
After this, repeat your installation using pip as before.
You also need to the build-essential
package if it hasn't been installed already. The complete install command is:
sudo apt-get install build-essential python3.6-dev