lxml will never finish building on ubuntu
I am running ubuntu 14.04 LTS and python 2.7.5 on a vwmare.
When I run:
sudo pip install lxml
I get:
Collecting lxml
Using cached lxml-3.4.4.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: lxml
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for lxml
which runs eternally.
I can't find any resources related to this, nor do I have any experience with similar errors.
Note, the solution below does not work:
sudo apt-get build-dep -y lxml;
pip install lxml
I have also tried:
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential python-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
python-dev is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-3.13.0-32 linux-headers-3.13.0-32-generic
linux-headers-3.13.0-57 linux-headers-3.13.0-57-generic
linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-3.13.0-57-generic
linux-image-extra-3.13.0-32-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-57-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 75 not upgraded.
EDIT:
I just ran it again and got:
sudo pip install lxml
Collecting lxml
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:90: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
InsecurePlatformWarning
Using cached lxml-3.4.4.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: lxml
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for lxml
EDIT 2:
pip install lxml
The directory '/home/myusername/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
The directory '/home/myusername/.cache/pip' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and caching wheels has been disabled. check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
Collecting lxml
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:90: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
InsecurePlatformWarning
Downloading lxml-3.4.4.tar.gz (3.5MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 3.5MB 7.0kB/s
Installing collected packages: lxml
Running setup.py install for lxml
EDIT 3: After waiting a long time the command gave:
pip install lxml
The directory '/home/mstaffel/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
The directory '/home/mstaffel/.cache/pip' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and caching wheels has been disabled. check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
Collecting lxml
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:90: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
InsecurePlatformWarning
Downloading lxml-3.4.4.tar.gz (3.5MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 3.5MB 7.0kB/s
Installing collected packages: lxml
Running setup.py install for lxml
Complete output from command /usr/local/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-u3iJ67/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-0tAWPp-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'bugtrack_url'
warnings.warn(msg)
Building lxml version 3.4.4.
Building without Cython.
Using build configuration of libxslt 1.1.28
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.7
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/pyclasslookup.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/cssselect.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/_elementpath.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/doctestcompare.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/builder.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/ElementInclude.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/usedoctest.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/sax.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/_diffcommand.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/soupparser.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/builder.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/usedoctest.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/html5parser.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/_setmixin.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/_html5builder.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/defs.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/clean.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/ElementSoup.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/diff.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/html
copying src/lxml/html/formfill.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/html
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/isoschematron
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/isoschematron
copying src/lxml/lxml.etree.h -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/lxml.etree_api.h -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml
copying src/lxml/includes/htmlparser.pxd -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/tree.pxd -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/schematron.pxd -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/xmlparser.pxd -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/xinclude.pxd -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/c14n.pxd -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/xpath.pxd -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/xslt.pxd -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/xmlschema.pxd -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/xmlerror.pxd -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/uri.pxd -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/relaxng.pxd -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/etreepublic.pxd -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/config.pxd -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/dtdvalid.pxd -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/etree_defs.h -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
copying src/lxml/includes/lxml-version.h -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/includes
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/rng
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/rng/iso-schematron.rng -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/rng
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/XSD2Schtrn.xsl -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/RNG2Schtrn.xsl -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1/iso_schematron_message.xsl -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1/iso_schematron_skeleton_for_xslt1.xsl -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1/iso_dsdl_include.xsl -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1/iso_svrl_for_xslt1.xsl -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1/iso_abstract_expand.xsl -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1
copying src/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1/readme.txt -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/isoschematron/resources/xsl/iso-schematron-xslt1
running build_ext
building 'lxml.etree' extension
creating build/temp.linux-i686-2.7
creating build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/src
creating build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/src/lxml
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/tmp/pip-build-u3iJ67/lxml/src/lxml/includes -I/usr/local/include/python2.7 -c src/lxml/lxml.etree.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/src/lxml/lxml.etree.o -w
gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/src/lxml/lxml.etree.o -lxslt -lexslt -lxml2 -lz -lm -o build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/etree.so
building 'lxml.objectify' extension
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/tmp/pip-build-u3iJ67/lxml/src/lxml/includes -I/usr/local/include/python2.7 -c src/lxml/lxml.objectify.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/src/lxml/lxml.objectify.o -w
gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/src/lxml/lxml.objectify.o -lxslt -lexslt -lxml2 -lz -lm -o build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/lxml/objectify.so
running install_lib
creating /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/lxml
error: could not create '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/lxml': Permission denied
----------------------------------------
Command "/usr/local/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-u3iJ67/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-0tAWPp-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-u3iJ67/lxml
Answer
Note that if you run top in a separate terminal you'll notice that your system is busy building the lxml package:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1645 root 20 0 322224 305740 5384 R 100.0 29.8 3:27.47 /usr/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/5/cc1 -quiet -I /usr/include/libxml2 -I src/lxml/includes -I /usr/include/python2.7 -imultiarch arm-linux-gnueabihf -D_REENTRANT -D ...
If you're building on a VM or SBC with limited resources this can take a while...