pocketsphinx 0.1.15 fails to install via pip

[JoelMon]

Hello,

I was trying to install the python package textract which has pocketsphinx as a depandancy, I believe they use pocketsphinx 0.1.13.

Anyhow, the installation via pipenv install textract would fail due to pocketsphinx failing to install via pip.

I completely removed the enviroment created by pipenv and initiated a new one. There seems to be a probelm with pocketsphinx on PyPi.

Bellow you can see the steps I took to install pocketsphinx in a clean enviroment.

user@user-Oryx-Pro ~/Documents/Development/Outline $ pipenv --python 3.6
Creating a virtualenv for this project…
Pipfile: /home/user/Documents/Development/Outline/Pipfile
Using /usr/bin/python3 (3.6.7) to create virtualenv…
⠴ Creating virtual environment...Using base prefix '/usr'
New python executable in /home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/Outline-H7ySTsce/bin/python3
Also creating executable in /home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/Outline-H7ySTsce/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...
done.
Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/python3

✔ Successfully created virtual environment! 
Virtualenv location: /home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/Outline-H7ySTsce
Creating a Pipfile for this project…
user@user-Oryx-Pro ~/Documents/Development/Outline $ pipenv install pocketsphinx
Installing pocketsphinx…
Adding pocketsphinx to Pipfile's [packages]…
✔ Installation Succeeded 
Pipfile.lock not found, creating…
Locking [dev-packages] dependencies…
Locking [packages] dependencies…
✔ Success! 
Updated Pipfile.lock (d5e3bd)!
Installing dependencies from Pipfile.lock (d5e3bd)…
An error occurred while installing pocketsphinx==0.1.15 --hash=sha256:1c2a8cc7f2032f9e8214f5e4e864511fe37bfd27f2045fbf8aed9c54569dc881 --hash=sha256:1f3eaca1b49d579e89e909bb101ad033493a1c9dddd8c72afd6b755c70365d56 --hash=sha256:34d290745c7dbe6fa2cac9815b5c19d10f393e528ecd70e779c21ebc448f9b63 --hash=sha256:3f438f9f5729a7629c122784697884cff5f2a2e022aef270a4081985d15eae88 --hash=sha256:41d2107b74597cf8444f9e36b91363d60097b4fa88a9c750760a85209deef439 --hash=sha256:667152b4139ba46de172fa627404fe284b2ecd5d6bfcfe905b068801324ba7fb --hash=sha256:71e7cf04433615e21ad3c28a2cc2daa43e96e570f2611f142eb3468f4f7789a6 --hash=sha256:72286c3ecaa6641d426ca80bd4d1b3241c26b1703af419429ef779719e007443 --hash=sha256:855c6761d008cdb4fc2d9aded5c1a0f163ce901f8b64075d36a88ae7814af755 --hash=sha256:8ca14694d7cc111796e63c13c61420553a43a29c63c386c975bfc213d8da3e55 --hash=sha256:9b477fcf8829f53ab470fdcf3fa77db00d71eee321353d10b306f0e5b95e8591 --hash=sha256:bfbbeddb20196abbb04b8f7b5dc03628c7df0dc87e760326d76d37b27fb9d6f9 --hash=sha256:d20b497369bd108dd135b3d4eed1d3edd2c8b51b1b696e67600adbfff2fe3316 --hash=sha256:e2a4f22cddec68e75e796068ae82095dd8dba1187aa3a8abe305bdc6c565e8b4 --hash=sha256:f0fdfe162bc99590e8666251a55d6311ac4cb137482a871f93d38b1834251253! Will try again.
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Installing initially failed dependencies…
[pipenv.exceptions.InstallError]:   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pipenv/core.py", line 1992, in do_install
[pipenv.exceptions.InstallError]:       skip_lock=skip_lock,
[pipenv.exceptions.InstallError]:   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pipenv/core.py", line 1253, in do_init
[pipenv.exceptions.InstallError]:       pypi_mirror=pypi_mirror,
[pipenv.exceptions.InstallError]:   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pipenv/core.py", line 859, in do_install_dependencies
[pipenv.exceptions.InstallError]:       retry_list, procs, failed_deps_queue, requirements_dir, **install_kwargs
[pipenv.exceptions.InstallError]:   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pipenv/core.py", line 763, in batch_install
[pipenv.exceptions.InstallError]:       _cleanup_procs(procs, not blocking, failed_deps_queue, retry=retry)
[pipenv.exceptions.InstallError]:   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pipenv/core.py", line 681, in _cleanup_procs
[pipenv.exceptions.InstallError]:       raise exceptions.InstallError(c.dep.name, extra=err_lines)
[pipenv.exceptions.InstallError]: ['Collecting pocketsphinx==0.1.15 (from -r /tmp/pipenv-_gn_b505-requirements/pipenv-bjoi1b3c-requirement.txt (line 1))', '  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/cd/4a/adea55f189a81aed88efa0b0e1d25628e5ed22622ab9174bf696dd4f9474/pocketsphinx-0.1.15.tar.gz', 'Building wheels for collected packages: pocketsphinx', '  Building wheel for pocketsphinx (setup.py): started', "  Building wheel for pocketsphinx (setup.py): finished with status 'error'", '  Running setup.py clean for pocketsphinx', 'Failed to build pocketsphinx', 'Installing collected packages: pocketsphinx', '  Running setup.py install for pocketsphinx: started', "    Running setup.py install for pocketsphinx: finished with status 'error'"]
[pipenv.exceptions.InstallError]: ['ERROR: Complete output from command /home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/Outline-H7ySTsce/bin/python3 -u -c \'import setuptools, tokenize;__file__=\'"\'"\'/tmp/pip-install-hvz8jx9i/pocketsphinx/setup.py\'"\'"\';f=getattr(tokenize, \'"\'"\'open\'"\'"\', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace(\'"\'"\'\\r\\n\'"\'"\', \'"\'"\'\\n\'"\'"\');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, \'"\'"\'exec\'"\'"\'))\' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-kanfgcgg --python-tag cp36:', '  ERROR: running bdist_wheel', '  running build_ext', "  building 'sphinxbase._sphinxbase' extension", '  swigging deps/sphinxbase/swig/sphinxbase.i to deps/sphinxbase/swig/sphinxbase_wrap.c', '  swig -python -modern -threads -Ideps/sphinxbase/include -Ideps/sphinxbase/include/sphinxbase -Ideps/sphinxbase/include/android -Ideps/sphinxbase/swig -outdir sphinxbase -o deps/sphinxbase/swig/sphinxbase_wrap.c deps/sphinxbase/swig/sphinxbase.i', "  unable to execute 'swig': No such file or directory", "  error: command 'swig' failed with exit status 1", '  ----------------------------------------', '  ERROR: Failed building wheel for pocketsphinx', '    ERROR: Complete output from command /home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/Outline-H7ySTsce/bin/python3 -u -c \'import setuptools, tokenize;__file__=\'"\'"\'/tmp/pip-install-hvz8jx9i/pocketsphinx/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-record-actwurl7/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/Outline-H7ySTsce/include/site/python3.6/pocketsphinx:', '    ERROR: running install', '    running build_ext', "    building 'sphinxbase._sphinxbase' extension", '    swigging deps/sphinxbase/swig/sphinxbase.i to deps/sphinxbase/swig/sphinxbase_wrap.c', '    swig -python -modern -threads -Ideps/sphinxbase/include -Ideps/sphinxbase/include/sphinxbase -Ideps/sphinxbase/include/android -Ideps/sphinxbase/swig -outdir sphinxbase -o deps/sphinxbase/swig/sphinxbase_wrap.c deps/sphinxbase/swig/sphinxbase.i', "    unable to execute 'swig': No such file or directory", "    error: command 'swig' failed with exit status 1", '    ----------------------------------------', 'ERROR: Command "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/Outline-H7ySTsce/bin/python3 -u -c \'import setuptools, tokenize;__file__=\'"\'"\'/tmp/pip-install-hvz8jx9i/pocketsphinx/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-record-actwurl7/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/Outline-H7ySTsce/include/site/python3.6/pocketsphinx" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-hvz8jx9i/pocketsphinx/']
ERROR: ERROR: Package installation failed...
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[nshmyrev]

You need to install swig

[shamoons]

How does one do this?

[rahilwazir]

@shamoons Download http://www.swig.org/download.html compile and install