when installing pyaudio, pip cannot find portaudio.h in /usr/local/include

Question

I\'m using mac osx 10.10 As the PyAudio Homepage said, I install the PyAudio using

brew install portaudio 
pip install pyaudio

the installa

Answer 1

I needed to do the following to install PortAudio on Debian

sudo apt install portaudio19-dev

I also apt install'd python3-portaudio before that, although it didn't work. I'm not sure if that contributed as well.

Answer 2

On Ubuntu builds:

sudo apt-get install python-pyaudio

For Python3:

sudo apt-get install python3-pyaudio

Answer 3

You have to install portaudio first then link that file. Only then you can find that header file (i.e, portaudio.h). To install portaudio in mac by using HomeBrew program use following commands.

brew install portaudio
brew link portaudio
pip install pyaudio

sudo is not needed if you're admin. We should refrain using sudo as it messes up lots of permissions.

Answer 4

If you are using anaconda/miniconda to manage your python environments then

conda install pyaudio

installs portaudio at the same time as pyaudio

The following NEW packages will be INSTALLED:

  portaudio          pkgs/main/osx-64::portaudio-19.6.0-h647c56a_4
  pyaudio            pkgs/main/osx-64::pyaudio-0.2.11-py37h1de35cc_2

Answer 5

on Centos:

yum install -y portaudio portaudio-devel && pip install pyaudio

Answer 6

For me on 10.10.5 the paths were under /opt/local. I had to add /opt/local/bin to my /etc/paths file. And the command line that worked was

sudo pip install --global-option='build_ext' --global-option='-I/opt/local/include' --global-option='-L/opt/local/lib' pyaudio