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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"libsystemd-dev needed also for installation via pip","articleBody":"Installing this package with:\r\n\r\n`pip install systemd-python`\r\n\r\nOn a Debian oldstable (Bullseye), I got an error message very similar to the ones reported in #47 and #97:\r\n\r\n```\r\npip install systemd-python\r\nCollecting systemd-python\r\n  Downloading systemd-python-235.tar.gz (61 kB)\r\n     |████████████████████████████████| 61 kB 83 kB/s\r\n    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:\r\n     command: /opt/measurement_system-venv/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '\"'\"'/tmp/pip-install-3lp1v0wl/systemd-python_605170e387494e1a9bdc2c7ba6ddef4a/setup.py'\"'\"'; __file__='\"'\"'/tmp/pip-install-3lp1v0wl/systemd-python_605170e387494e1a9bdc2c7ba6ddef4a/setup.py'\"'\"';f=getattr(tokenize, '\"'\"'open'\"'\"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\"'\"'\\r\\n'\"'\"', '\"'\"'\\n'\"'\"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '\"'\"'exec'\"'\"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-zqy_tu5b\r\n         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-3lp1v0wl/systemd-python_605170e387494e1a9bdc2c7ba6ddef4a/\r\n    Complete output (12 lines):\r\n    Cannot find libsystemd or libsystemd-journal:\r\n\r\n    Package libsystemd was not found in the pkg-config search path.\r\n    Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libsystemd.pc'\r\n    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable\r\n    No package 'libsystemd' found\r\n\r\n    Package libsystemd-journal was not found in the pkg-config search path.\r\n    Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libsystemd-journal.pc'\r\n    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable\r\n    No package 'libsystemd-journal' found\r\n\r\n    ----------------------------------------\r\nWARNING: Discarding https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/10/9e/ab4458e00367223bda2dd7ccf0849a72235ee3e29b36dce732685d9b7ad9/systemd-python-235.tar.gz#sha256=4e57f39797fd5d9e2d22b8806a252d7c0106c936039d1e71c8c6b8008e695c0a (from https://pypi.org/simple/systemd-python/). Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.\r\n  Downloading systemd-python-234.tar.gz (53 kB)\r\n     |████████████████████████████████| 53 kB 496 kB/s\r\n    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:\r\n     command: /opt/measurement_system-venv/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '\"'\"'/tmp/pip-install-3lp1v0wl/systemd-python_fce97db8c3184d04b9266626a33ab67b/setup.py'\"'\"'; __file__='\"'\"'/tmp/pip-install-3lp1v0wl/systemd-python_fce97db8c3184d04b9266626a33ab67b/setup.py'\"'\"';f=getattr(tokenize, '\"'\"'open'\"'\"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\"'\"'\\r\\n'\"'\"', '\"'\"'\\n'\"'\"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '\"'\"'exec'\"'\"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-2hsisnk0\r\n         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-3lp1v0wl/systemd-python_fce97db8c3184d04b9266626a33ab67b/\r\n    Complete output (12 lines):\r\n    Cannot find libsystemd or libsystemd-journal:\r\n\r\n    Package libsystemd was not found in the pkg-config search path.\r\n    Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libsystemd.pc'\r\n    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable\r\n    No package 'libsystemd' found\r\n\r\n    Package libsystemd-journal was not found in the pkg-config search path.\r\n    Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libsystemd-journal.pc'\r\n    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable\r\n    No package 'libsystemd-journal' found\r\n\r\n    ----------------------------------------\r\nWARNING: Discarding https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e8/a8/00ba0f605837a8f69523e6c3a4fb14675a6430c163f836540129c50b3aef/systemd-python-234.tar.gz#sha256=fd0e44bf70eadae45aadc292cb0a7eb5b0b6372cd1b391228047d33895db83e7 (from https://pypi.org/simple/systemd-python/). Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.\r\n  Downloading systemd-python-233.tar.gz (49 kB)\r\n     |████████████████████████████████| 49 kB 1.6 MB/s\r\n    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:\r\n     command: /opt/measurement_system-venv/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '\"'\"'/tmp/pip-install-3lp1v0wl/systemd-python_bb46b5166fe1470496a4586b7b1b3884/setup.py'\"'\"'; __file__='\"'\"'/tmp/pip-install-3lp1v0wl/systemd-python_bb46b5166fe1470496a4586b7b1b3884/setup.py'\"'\"';f=getattr(tokenize, '\"'\"'open'\"'\"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\"'\"'\\r\\n'\"'\"', '\"'\"'\\n'\"'\"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '\"'\"'exec'\"'\"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-95vgxi6u\r\n         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-3lp1v0wl/systemd-python_bb46b5166fe1470496a4586b7b1b3884/\r\n    Complete output (12 lines):\r\n    Cannot find libsystemd or libsystemd-journal:\r\n\r\n    Package libsystemd was not found in the pkg-config search path.\r\n    Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libsystemd.pc'\r\n    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable\r\n    No package 'libsystemd' found\r\n\r\n    Package libsystemd-journal was not found in the pkg-config search path.\r\n    Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libsystemd-journal.pc'\r\n    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable\r\n    No package 'libsystemd-journal' found\r\n\r\n    ----------------------------------------\r\nWARNING: Discarding https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/10/89/d66ae73bdbc2614e4f2e90ddf9ef80d22c28f3cd70071345c3640465c14c/systemd-python-233.tar.gz#sha256=06a3768b744884565d7961b44f4a51d164765bc59692f0f85ea6f11330a17da4 (from https://pypi.org/simple/systemd-python/). Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.\r\n  Downloading systemd-python-232.tar.gz (49 kB)\r\n     |████████████████████████████████| 49 kB 1.4 MB/s\r\n    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:\r\n     command: /opt/measurement_system-venv/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '\"'\"'/tmp/pip-install-3lp1v0wl/systemd-python_f10a8673949f4842a0bb53f7ea5fe779/setup.py'\"'\"'; __file__='\"'\"'/tmp/pip-install-3lp1v0wl/systemd-python_f10a8673949f4842a0bb53f7ea5fe779/setup.py'\"'\"';f=getattr(tokenize, '\"'\"'open'\"'\"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\"'\"'\\r\\n'\"'\"', '\"'\"'\\n'\"'\"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '\"'\"'exec'\"'\"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-oql0295y\r\n         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-3lp1v0wl/systemd-python_f10a8673949f4842a0bb53f7ea5fe779/\r\n    Complete output (12 lines):\r\n    Cannot find libsystemd or libsystemd-journal:\r\n\r\n    Package libsystemd was not found in the pkg-config search path.\r\n    Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libsystemd.pc'\r\n    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable\r\n    No package 'libsystemd' found\r\n\r\n    Package libsystemd-journal was not found in the pkg-config search path.\r\n    Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libsystemd-journal.pc'\r\n    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable\r\n    No package 'libsystemd-journal' found\r\n\r\n    ----------------------------------------\r\nWARNING: Discarding https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/87/a3/e73a8373d40b05a75bb34fdccae606ab4dc0c0743535289904f15eb624f5/systemd-python-232.tar.gz#sha256=e5d0fdbdf50e7d67c77e08bc7986ef41d98aef222896bc033c27477893c3d4ba (from https://pypi.org/simple/systemd-python/). Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.\r\nERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement systemd-python\r\nERROR: No matching distribution found for systemd-python\r\n```\r\n\r\nInstalling libsystemd-dev with `apt install libsystemd-dev` allowed me to install the package.\r\n\r\nI would mention this also in the \"Installation\" section of the Readme (that is the section I read when I tried to install via pip...) and not only in the \"To build from source\" one.\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ilario","@type":"Person","name":"ilario"},"datePublished":"2024-12-17T11:10:35.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/138/python-systemd/issues/138"}