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Question

I\'m trying to install the dlib Python library. On some systems (macOS, stock Ubuntu 14.04) pip install dlib works fine, but in the Ubuntu 14.x tha

Answer 1

I had similar problem when building matplotlib (a dependency for scikit-image) for aws lambda python 3.6 inside amazon docker container amazon-linux-python-3.6.

In short matplotlib was giving the same error as OP had for /usr/lib/libpython3.6m.a. Turned out there were two such libraries in the amazon docker container:

find / -name "libpython3.6m.a"
/usr/lib/libpython3.6m.a
/usr/lib/python3.6/config-3.6m-x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.6m.a

So I just renamed /usr/lib/libpython3.6m.a to something else so that matplotlib does not use it, and chooses the second option:

enter code heremv /usr/lib/libpython3.6m.a /usr/lib/libpython3.6m.a.moved

After this change, scikit-image were successful using pip3 install --no-binary scikit-image scikit-image.