Could not build wheels for pyaudio, since package 'wheel' is not installed

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Sih Jie picture Sih Jie · May 2, 2020 · Viewed 24.9k times · Source

I tried to install pyaudio, but it returns an error like this:

Could not build wheels for pyaudio, since package 'wheel' is not installed.

picture of the terminal

How can I fix this?

Answer

Stress_ picture Stress_ · May 2, 2020

It looks like you just need to install the wheel package. You can do this by running pip install wheel at the terminal.

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