"enchant C library not found" while installing pyenchant using pip on OSX
macos, pip, pyenchant
Solution
You need to install `enchant`, which is a C library. You can use Homebrew, to do this kind of package management. Just enter:
brew install enchant
Before trying to pip install `pyenchant` and you should be fine.
Problem
I typed in `pip install pyenchant` into my shell, but it raised two Traceback errors: 1: ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 16, in <module> File "/private/var/folders/q4/l70hdqjd5db2n2bdj69qrwz40000gq/T/pip_build_prernauppal/pyenchant/setup.py", line 195, in <module> import enchant File "enchant/__init__.py", line 90, in <module> from enchant import _enchant as _e File "enchant/_enchant.py", line 133, in <module> raise ImportError("enchant C library not found") ImportError: enchant C library not found ``` 2: ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 16, in <module> File "/private/var/folders/q4/l70hdqjd5db2n2bdj69qrwz40000gq/T/pip_build_prernauppal/pyenchant/setup.py", line 195, in <module> import enchant File "enchant/__init__.py", line 90, in <module> from enchant import _enchant as _e File "enchant/_enchant.py", line 133, in <module> raise ImportError("enchant C library not found") ImportError: enchant C library not found ---------------------------------------- Cleaning up... Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/q4/l70hdqjd5db2n2bdj69qrwz40000gq/T/pip_build_prernauppal/pyenchant ``` I have python 2.7 default installed on my mac, but it still isn't working. I have already looked at Unable to install pyenchant-1.6.5 for python 2.7 on Mac OSX Lion but it doesn't answer my question, as `easy_install pyenchant` raises even more errors.