I got the following error while trying to install pyaudio using pip3 in ubuntu 16.04:
Collecting pyaudio Downloading PyAudio-0.2.11.tar.gz Installing collected packages: pyaudio Running setup.py install for pyaudio ... error Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-mxgvewdb/pyaudio/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('rn', 'n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-v55chjee-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile: running install running build running build_py creating build creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.5 copying src/pyaudio.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.5 running build_ext building '_portaudio' extension creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5 creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5/src x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python3.5m -c src/_portaudiomodule.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5/src/_portaudiomodule.o src/_portaudiomodule.c:29:23: fatal error: portaudio.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1 ---------------------------------------- Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-mxgvewdb/pyaudio/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('rn', 'n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-v55chjee-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-mxgvewdb/pyaudio/
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Answer
This should help
$ sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev python-pyaudio python3-pyaudio
Tested on Ubuntu 18.04
, Python 3.7.2
, pyaudio 0.2.11
Added 8th of Jan 2021:
On Ubuntu 20.04 you have to use:
$ sudo apt install portaudio19-dev python3-pyaudio