Failed building wheel for spacy

Question

I\'m trying to install spacy by running pip install spacy for python version 3.6.1 but continuously i\'m getting errors like below,how to get r

Answer 1

conda install -c conda-forge spacy worked for me. I have windows 10 and Python 3.5.3 :: Anaconda custom (64-bit)

Answer 2

I installed these packages, then it works:

sudo apt-get install python-dev 
sudo apt-get install python3-dev 
sudo apt-get install libevent-dev

Answer 3

yum -y groupinstall development

WORKED FOR ME

Answer 4

This worked for me:

# Note, use sudo. I'm in a docker image, so i dont need it.

# install dev libs
apt-get install python-dev -y && \
apt-get install python3-dev -y && \
apt-get install libevent-dev -y && \

# install new gcc
apt-get update && \
apt-get install build-essential software-properties-common -y && \
add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test -y && \
apt-get update && \
apt-get install gcc-snapshot -y && \
apt-get update && \
apt-get install gcc-6 g++-6 -y && \
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-6 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-6 && \
apt-get install gcc-4.8 g++-4.8 -y && \
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.8 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.8;

see https://gist.github.com/application2000/73fd6f4bf1be6600a2cf9f56315a2d91

Answer 5

A couple thoughts:

• Grab the various wheel files you need from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#spacy and install with pip install x.whl y.whl etc.
• Upgrade your version of cpp build tools to 2017 and try pip again

Answer 6

If you are using it with manually installed python3.6 and trying to install in a 3.6 environment then you maybe missing python3.6-dev

sudo apt-get install python3.6-dev

also maybe

sudo apt-get install gcc

This is an answer to particular case.