Python docx installation isn't working due to unknown error on linux

Question

I'm trying to install pip install python-docx but get the following error. Why doesn't it work?

building 'lxml.etree' extension

creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7

creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src

creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/lxml

gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/tmp/pip_build_plakshma/lxml/src/lxml/includes -I/opt/python2.7/include/python2.7 -c src/lxml/lxml.etree.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/lxml/lxml.etree.o -w

gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/lxml/lxml.etree.o -L/usr/lib64 -L. -lxslt -lexslt -lxml2 -lz -lm -lpython2.7 -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/lxml/etree.so

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.a(abstract.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

/usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.a: could not read symbols: Bad value

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Answer 1

Type this in your terminal/cmd. pip install python-docx .

For me when I made typed it in the apple terminal it was an error but type in the Pycharm terminal and it should work.