Failed building wheel for twisted

Question

I made a virtualenv, and a new blank django project. I want to install Channels. I'm using Python 3.6.3. I typed pip install -U channels and this is output:

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Failed building wheel for twisted
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Command "/home/marcin/Documents/django_projects/channels/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-ic8ux9ei/twisted/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-ox6bclm5-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/marcin/Documents/django_projects/channels/include/site/python3.6/twisted" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-ic8ux9ei/twisted/

pip list OUTPUT:

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Django (1.11.6)
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pip (9.0.1)
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setuptools (36.6.0)
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wheel (0.29.0)
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I see that I don't have Twisted, so I typed: pip install twisted. This is the output:

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 Failed building wheel for twisted
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Command "/home/marcin/Documents/django_projects/channels/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-a54n37_z/twisted/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-9p23ehnv-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/marcin/Documents/django_projects/channels/include/site/python3.6/twisted" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-a54n37_z/twisted/

As you can see, the outputs are almost the same. How can I install Channels?

You might be missing a few packages that are installed using apt. Try `sudo apt install python3.6-dev` and then repeat the installation process for pip. — edwinksl, Oct 20 '17 at 23:41
Sounds good; I will write an answer in case there are other people who face the same problem :) — edwinksl, Oct 21 '17 at 08:54

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 21 '17 at 08:55

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The error message is not particularly helpful but it seems you are missing the python3.6-dev package, which is installed using apt:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3.6-dev

After this, repeat your installation using pip as before.

answered Oct 21 '17 at 08:55

edwinksl

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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered May 17 '18 at 01:17

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You also need to the build-essential package if it hasn't been installed already. The complete install command is:

sudo apt-get install build-essential python3.6-dev

answered May 17 '18 at 01:17

Steve Rawlinson

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that was indeed my problem, according to my python version, 3.5 – Leggy7 Aug 02 '18 at 20:27
I had installation problems related to rasa core on my Ubuntu machine. This fixed it. Thanks Steve. – Rajesh Aug 30 '18 at 17:36
sure, this works for me – Zacharia Mwalwama Aug 02 '19 at 11:38
This helped me on 20.04 using python 3.8 – The_Cthulhu_Kid Apr 17 '20 at 09:55

score -1 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 27 '18 at 10:49

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Faced a similar issue while installing rasa_core.

Resolved an issue in a couple of steps:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-esssential python3.6-dev

Finally able to install rasa_core successfully.

edited Dec 27 '18 at 10:49

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answered Oct 11 '18 at 10:32

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Failed building wheel for twisted

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