psutil: psutil fails to install on python3.6 and Ubuntu16.04

install psutil with pip on python3.6 gives this error I’ve tried installing different versions of psutil with the same error

Command "/usr/bin/python3.6 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-_0xq2q7o/psutil/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-k4askr37-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-_0xq2q7o/psutil/

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Created 7 years ago
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Installing python-dev as mentioned in https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/issues/1143#issuecomment-334694641 (incl. docs) and downgrading to circleci/python:3.7.5 image for more sturdiness — committed to jonashackt/molecule-ansible-docker-aws by jonashackt 5 years ago

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I was just about to comment the same, after I read the install file: https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/blob/master/INSTALL.rst However, if you have multiple versions installed (like me, I have python 3.4.3 and 3.5.4 installed), you need to specify a more granular version, like so: sudo apt-get install python3.5-dev After that, it installed without issues

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Tommatheussen on Oct 6, 2017

You guys need Python header files. On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install python-dev. On RedHat like distros it should be sudo yum install python-devel.

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giampaolo on Oct 6, 2017

ubuntu 16.04 i helped

sudo apt install python3.6-dev
python3 -m pip install psutil

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lain0 on Jul 20, 2018

I had the same error using a virtual environment. And doing sudo apt-get install python3.5-dev did not solve it at first.

To solve it, I had to:

deactivate the virtualenv
remove the virtualenv
sudo apt-get install python3.5-dev
recreate the virtualenv

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vhoulbreque on May 14, 2019

sudo yum install python-develdoesnt work while you are using python 3 ,So try sudo yum install python3-devel incase if you are running python 3 … It solved my issue 😃

SudoComrade on Mar 21, 2019

One more note that may be useful other people with this issue:

I’m using a RedHat distro and Python 2.7, and sudo yum install python-devel wasn’t resolving the issue. I eventually realized it was because, for some reason, that installed python-devel for Python 2.6.

After a bit of googling I was able to resolve this issue with sudo yum install python27-devel.x86_64, which installed python_devel for Python 2.7 after which pip install psutil succeeded.

gnarizzy on Jun 18, 2018

if you guys still have this issue just install gcc to your server

igunultas on Mar 20, 2020

@Kosemii I got this error when trying to install tfds-nightly to install tensorflow datasets library. This solved my issue: sudo apt-get install python3.5-dev if you are working in 3.6 then replace 3.5 with 3.6

SumanthMeenan on May 10, 2019

sudo yum install python-develdoesnt work while you are using python 3 ,So try sudo yum install python3-devel incase if you are running python 3 … It solved my issue 😃

thanks, that works for me!

QixinLi on Oct 15, 2019