how to install portaudio on pi properly

Question

I am working on a project that involves recording from a mic on a raspberry pi. for now i am getting this error while the program is running.

python3

Answer 1

Your first link correctly identifies a bug in portaudio, but the fix is incomplete. I forked the portaudio library and created a patch to fix this. Here are the steps to remove the portaudio package and compile the patched version from source:

sudo apt-get remove libportaudio2
sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev
git clone -b alsapatch https://github.com/gglockner/portaudio
cd portaudio
./configure && make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ..

At this point, you should have a patched portaudio library, based on the pa_stable_v190600_20161030 tag. Finally, if you need the PyAudio package for Python, then install it using pip: sudo pip3 install pyaudio.