Pillow installation error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

15
votes

I am trying to setup my Django variant (Wagtail) but have problems installing the required Pillow.

Background: Am running Python 2.6.6, in virtualenv, using Mac terminal to have shell access to domain hosted on A Small Orange, no root access, cannot use sudo commands

When i run 

pip install Pillow

i get the below error:

  Downloading/unpacking Pillow
  Downloading Pillow-2.3.0.zip (2.4MB): 2.4MB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/home/clarayee/.env/env/build/Pillow/setup.py) egg_info for package Pillow
  Installing collected packages: Pillow
  Running setup.py install for Pillow
    building 'PIL._imaging' extension
    gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -fPIC -DHAVE_LIBJPEG -DHAVE_LIBZ -DHAVE_LIBTIFF -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/home/clarayee/.env/env/build/Pillow/libImaging -I/home/clarayee/.env/env/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/python2.6 -c _imaging.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/_imaging.o
    unable to execute gcc: Permission denied
    error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
    Complete output from command /home/clarayee/.env/env/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/home/clarayee/.env/env/build/Pillow/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-nCrvqa-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/clarayee/.env/env/include/site/python2.6:
    running install

running build

running build_py

creating build

creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6

creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/MicImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/TiffTags.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageWin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/IcnsImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/BmpImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/DcxImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/McIdasImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageFileIO.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/SunImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImagePalette.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ArgImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/Image.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/PngImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/BufrStubImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/PalmImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImagePath.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/XpmImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/EpsImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageFile.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageMath.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/PpmImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/IcoImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/PcfFontFile.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageTk.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/GdImageFile.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/_util.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/MspImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/FliImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageEnhance.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/TiffImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/TarIO.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/JpegImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageColor.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/Hdf5StubImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/BdfFontFile.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImtImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/PixarImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/JpegPresets.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/XVThumbImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/GimpGradientFile.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageQt.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageCms.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/WebPImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/CurImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/FpxImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageMode.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageChops.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ContainerIO.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/GifImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/WalImageFile.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageDraw2.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageFont.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/IptcImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageOps.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/SgiImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/PsdImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/MpegImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/GbrImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/PcdImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/OleFileIO.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/XbmImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/PSDraw.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageTransform.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageDraw.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/PdfImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/FontFile.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/TgaImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/SpiderImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/WmfImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ExifTags.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageFilter.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/PcxImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageShow.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageSequence.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/GribStubImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/GimpPaletteFile.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/PaletteFile.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageStat.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/_binary.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/FitsStubImagePlugin.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/tests.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

copying PIL/ImageGrab.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/PIL

running egg_info

writing dependency_links to Pillow.egg-info/dependency_links.txt

writing Pillow.egg-info/PKG-INFO

writing top-level names to Pillow.egg-info/top_level.txt

warning: manifest_maker: standard file '-c' not found

reading manifest file 'Pillow.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'

reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'

writing manifest file 'Pillow.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'

running build_ext

building 'PIL._imaging' extension

creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/libImaging

gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -fPIC -DHAVE_LIBJPEG -DHAVE_LIBZ -DHAVE_LIBTIFF -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/home/clarayee/.env/env/build/Pillow/libImaging -I/home/clarayee/.env/env/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/python2.6 -c _imaging.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/_imaging.o

unable to execute gcc: Permission denied

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command /home/clarayee/.env/env/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/home/clarayee/.env/env/build/Pillow/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-nCrvqa-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/clarayee/.env/env/include/site/python2.6 failed with error code 1 in /home/clarayee/.env/env/build/Pillow
Storing debug log for failure in /home/clarayee/.pip/pip.log

Same issue as when I run easy_install. Will appreciate any help!

6
pythondjangopillow
unable to execute gcc: Permission denied . Ask hosting provide to run your command for you . – Priyank Patel
ah, will do that and report back. thanks! – moshushi
1. You don't need to be root to install inside virtualenv 2. What does gcc --version show? 3. What is in /home/clarayee/.pip/pip.log? – jfs
1. that's what I thought too. 2. tried to check version returns: -jailshell: /usr/bin/gcc: Permission denied – moshushi
3. pip.log says unable to execute gcc: Permission denied error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 ---------------------------------------- Cleaning up... Removing temporary dir /home/clarayee/.env/env/build... Command /home/clarayee/.env/env/bin/python -c " – moshushi

6 Answers

23
votes

Make sure you have gcc and python-dev installed

sudo apt-get install gcc python-dev

11
votes

I had a similar problem (gcc failed, but no mention of permissions), but it was dependencies that were my problem. By the way, my task was to install Pillow on a raspberry pi, which is why those dev libraries were necessary. They may not be necessary for you. It was the python-imaging command that did the trick most, I think. Here's what I did:

# Add the deb-src for each deb in /etc/apt/sources list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev tk8.5 tcl8.5 tk8.5-dev tcl8.5-dev
sudo apt-get build-dep python-imaging --fix-missing
sudo pip install Pillow

Sources: https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow/issues/322 http://forums.getpebble.com/discussion/8490/ubuntu-install-problem-when-it-comes-to-pip https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/105265/install-pil-pillow-via-pip-in-debian-testing-jessie

4
votes

In case this helps anyone else. This may be what the service provider did.

On CentOS I ended up having to install Python headers to fix the problem.

yum install python-devel

then

pip install Pillow
3
votes

Try running this in terminal:

export CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments
export CPPFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments

Then pip install Pillow

1
votes

Solved. Priyank Patel was right... it's a server-side permission issue. Thank you all!

unable to execute gcc: Permission denied . Ask hosting provide to run your command for you . – Priyank Patel yesterday

0
votes

You have to execute it in root directory.