Pip install pygraphviz fails: Failed building wheel for pygraphviz

Question

I have troubles installing pygraphviz on macOS 10.10.5. I have a fully functional installation of Python 2.7.x, and I\'d like to run the test example of queueing-tool, which

Answer 1

Basically you need to download graphviz first using brew:

brew install graphviz

pip install graphviz

pip install pygraphviz 

You can also try using pip3 in place of pip just in case there is Python's version issue. Hope it helps.

Answer 2

The comment by Andrew brought me on the right path. Thank you for that.

It turns out that a detailed solution for installing pygraphviz on macOS is already available on stackoverflow, see this solution by teut.

Answer 3

Try this :

sudo apt-get install python-dev graphviz libgraphviz-dev pkg-config

or the following might be needed if you're using Python 3:

sudo apt-get install python3-dev graphviz libgraphviz-dev pkg-config

then

sudo pip install pygraphviz