Installing lxml module in python

Question

while running a python script, I got this error

  from lxml import etree
ImportError: No module named lxml

now I tried to install lxml

Answer 1

For python 3 this worked for me

sudo apt-get install python3-lxml

Answer 2

If you are encountering this issue on an Alpine based image try this :

apk add --update --no-cache g++ gcc libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python-dev libffi-dev openssl-dev make

// pip install -r requirements.txt

Answer 3

Just do:

sudo apt-get install python-lxml

For Python 2 (e.g., required by Inkscape):

sudo apt-get install python2-lxml

If you are planning to install from source, then albertov's answer will help. But unless there is a reason, don't, just install it from the repository.

Answer 4

You need to install Python's header files (python-dev package in debian/ubuntu) to compile lxml. As well as libxml2, libxslt, libxml2-dev, and libxslt-dev:

apt-get install python-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev

Answer 5

If you're running python3, you'll have to do:

pip3 install lxml

Answer 6

I solved it upgrading the lxml version with:

pip install --upgrade lxml