Hieroglyph and Tinkerer Dependencies
In setting up virtualenvs for my slides and blog repos on my new laptop, I’ve been reminded that a variety of Sphinx-based tools require system dependencies as well as the ones in their virtualenvs.
Hieroglyph dependency issues
The error resulting from pip install -r requirements.txt ended with:
Command ".../virtualenv/bin/python2 -u -c
"import setuptools,
tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-lzbk_r/Pillow/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize,
'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))"
install --record /tmp/pip-BNDc_6-record/install-record.txt
--single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers
/home/edunham/repos/slides/rustcommunity/v/include/site/python2.7/Pillow"
failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-lzbk_r/Pillow/
Its fix, from stackoverflow, was:
$ sudo apt-get install libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev python-tk
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Tinkerer depencencies, too!
pip install -r requirements.txt over in my blog repo yielded:
Command ".../virtualenv/bin/python2 -u -c "import setuptools,
tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-NVLSBY/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize,
'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))"
install --record /tmp/pip-qD5QIe-record/install-record.txt
--single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers
/home/edunham/repos/site/v/include/site/python2.7/lxml" failed with error code
1 in /tmp/pip-build-NVLSBY/lxml/
The fix is again to install the missing system deps, on Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
That’s it! I’m writing this down for SEO on the specific errors at hand, since the first several useful hits are currently stackoverflow.
If you’re a pip developer reading this, please briefly contemplate whether it’d be worthwhile to have some built-in mechanism to translate common dependency errors to the appropriate system package names needed based on the OS on which the command is run.