Why fatal error: 'yaml.h' file not found when installing PyYAML?
Solution 1
You can solve the issue by reinstalling the pyyaml package after adding required dependent libraries. Following are the steps:
- Uninstall pyyaml
pip uninstall pyyaml
- Install below packages
apt-get install libyaml-dev libpython2.7-dev
- Install pyyaml again
pip install pyyaml
Solution 2
In MacOS
the following solved the problem:
pip3 uninstall PyYaml
pip3 install PyYaml==5.2
Penny
Updated on July 09, 2022Comments
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Penny almost 2 years
I'm trying out downloading PyYAML and install it following the instructions here http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML
So I downloaded the ZIP package: http://pyyaml.org/download/pyyaml/PyYAML-3.11.zip and then cd into that folder and run
python setup.py --with-libyaml install
, the error message I got isext/_yaml.h:2:10: fatal error: 'yaml.h' file not found
But I checked the PyYAML-3.11 folder, the yaml.h is there...
UPDATE: I tried the methods here http://sandlininc.com/?p=500
$ sudo easy_install pip
$ brew install libyaml
$ sudo easy_install setuptools
$ pip install -U PyYAML
Then I tried the
python setup.py --with-libyaml install
again. I got the message error: /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/_yaml.so: Permission deniedDid I miss anything? Why the permission was denied? Thank you!