ImportError: The 'enchant' C library was not found. Please install it via your OS package manager, or use a pre-built binary wheel from PyPI

Question

The question is why I see the error message in the title when trying to import enchant. I am using Win64.

Answer 1

Resolved: On Win7-64 I ran

pip3 install pyenchant==1.6.6

which seems to be the latest version of PyEnchant that still shipped with Win-64 binaries. Newer versions did not install for me, but this one did.

Answer 2

On Windows x64 I've solved this problem as follows:

• Click link https://pypi.org/project/pyenchant/#files and download pyenchant-2.0.0.win32.exe
• Launch it and while installing it using the installation wizard you must specify your python interpreter location which in my case is:

C:\Users\Asus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\python.exe

Important:İf you use python32 interpreter you must specify this location:

C:\Users\Asus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\python.exe

if you use python 3.5 interpreter version your location may be like this:

C:\Users\Asus\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\python.exe

and finish the installation. Pip commands will work now for other dependency packages.

Answer 3

For me, the problem I ran into was that I had an old version of pip. I installed the latest version and was able to download the pyenchant library.

pip install -U pip

Answer 4

For amazon ubuntu instance use.

yum install enchant 

and then

pip install pyenchant

Answer 5

I found the answer in this GitHub page.

In a nutshell, they have not shipped a wheel for the win_amd64 platform yet.

Answer 6

On Ubuntu, run sudo apt-get install libenchant1c2a