portaudio.h: No such file or directory

Question

I got the following error while trying to install pyaudio using pip3 in ubuntu 16.04:

Collecting pyaudio
  Downloading PyAudio-0.2.11.tar.gz
Installing colle         


        

Answer 1

For MacOS:

brew install portaudio
pip3 install pyaudio

Answer 2

This should help

$ sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev python-pyaudio python3-pyaudio

Tested on Ubuntu 18.04, Python 3.7.2, pyaudio 0.2.11

Answer 3

For Centos7/RHEL:

yum install portaudio-devel alsa-lib-devel portaudio
pip install pyaudio --user