Can't install textract (for python 2.x) on Ubuntu because of pocketsphinx

Question

I have followed the instructions on the textract website, but I am getting an error because of pocketsphinx

I have tried installing pocketsphinx separtely using pip but the same error occurs:

Command "/usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/tmp/pip-build-drE9wI/pocketsphinx/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-nfLJNp-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-drE9wI/pocketsphinx/

I am trying to install it on Ubuntu 16.04. If it matters, I am running it on a virtual machine.

Praveen Praveen · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-23T05:57:24

There is a missing dependency for libpulse-dev without which the pocketsphinx compilation fails.

Install it as

sudo apt-get install libpulse-dev

In addition, on my Ubuntu, i had to install several other dependencies to get textract working.

sudo apt-get install swig
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool pkg-config python-opengl python-imaging python-pyrex python-pyside.qtopengl idle-python2.7 qt4-dev-tools qt4-designer libqtgui4 libqtcore4 libqt4-xml libqt4-test libqt4-script libqt4-network libqt4-dbus python-qt4 python-qt4-gl libgle3 python-dev libssl-de
sudo easy_install greenlet
sudo easy_install gevent

Can't install textract (for python 2.x) on Ubuntu because of pocketsphinx

1 Answers