Can't install zbar

Question

I am trying to use the qrtools module with Python 3.4.2 on my Raspberry Pi 2, however it cannot run as I don\'t have the zbar module installed. Trying

Answer 1

Bumping @herve solution

On ubuntu and on Mint

sudo apt-get install python-zbar libzbar-dev python-qrtools

pip install libzbar-cffi==0.2.1

Answer 2

Try the following code after entering sudo mode: yum install zbar-devel This should work for fedora.

Answer 3

assuming you're using a debian derivative (like ubuntu), you need to install zbar's developement package, which contains the header file zbar.h

$ sudo apt-get install libzbar-dev

for redhat/fedora systems:

$ sudo yum install zbar-devel

and probably python's dev package too:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev

Answer 4

or you can use pip install zbar-py https://pypi.org/project/zbar-py/