Fail to install lxml using pip

Question

This is the command I used to install lxml:

sudo pip install lxml

And I got the following message in the Cleaning Up stage:

Cleaning up...
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools,     tokenize;__file__='/private/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-rUFjFN-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml
Storing debug log for failure in /Users/georgejor/Library/Logs/pip.log

After that, I got:

ImportError: No module named lxml

Please help. Thanks!

The following output is from pip.log:

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
  Removing temporary dir /private/tmp/pip_build_root...
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-rUFjFN-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 283, in run
    requirement_set.install(install_options, global_options, root=options.root_path)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req.py", line 1435, in install
    requirement.install(install_options, global_options, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/req.py", line 706, in install
    cwd=self.source_dir, filter_stdout=self._filter_install, show_stdout=False)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip/util.py", line 697, in call_subprocess
    % (command_desc, proc.returncode, cwd))
InstallationError: Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-rUFjFN-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip_build_root/lxml

Answer 1

Just install these stuff :

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev  python-dev  python-setuptools

Then try again :

pip install lxml

Answer 2

Here is a similar question.

Error installing Pillow (and PIL)

Are you using a MacOS? Maybe you can try to update the commandline tools and try 'brew' tool. If not, you can try to install pip and easy_intall tools again, and update it.

https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html

Answer 3

lxml has C depenedencies, often I run into issues when I'm missing libxslt or libxml2 . Are you sure that all non python dependencies are installed?