Failed to install Python Cryptography package with PIP and setup.py
PythonCryptographyPipPython Problem Overview
When I try to install the Cryptography package for Python through either pip install cryptography or by downloading the package from their site and running python setup.py, I get the following error:
D:\Anaconda\Scripts\pip-script.py run on 02/27/14 16:13:17
Downloading/unpacking cryptography
Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/cryptography/
URLs to search for versions for cryptography:
* https://pypi.python.org/simple/cryptography/
Analyzing links from page https://pypi.python.org/simple/cryptography/
Skipping https://pypi.python.org/packages/cp26/c/cryptography/cryptography-0.2-cp26-none-win32.whl#md5=13e5c4b19520e7dc6f07c6502b3f74e2 (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/cryptography/) because it is not compatible with this Python
Skipping https://pypi.python.org/packages/cp26/c/cryptography/cryptography-0.2.1-cp26-none-win32.whl#md5=00e733648ee5cdb9e58876238b1328f8 (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/cryptography/) because it is not compatible with this Python
Skipping https://pypi.python.org/packages/cp27/c/cryptography/cryptography-0.2-cp27-none-win32.whl#md5=013ccafa6a5a3ea92c73f2c1c4879406 (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/cryptography/) because it is not compatible with this Python
Skipping https://pypi.python.org/packages/cp27/c/cryptography/cryptography-0.2.1-cp27-none-win32.whl#md5=127d6a5dc687250721f892d55720a06c (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/cryptography/) because it is not compatible with this Python
Skipping https://pypi.python.org/packages/cp32/c/cryptography/cryptography-0.2-cp32-none-win32.whl#md5=051424a36e91039807b72f112333ded3 (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/cryptography/) because it is not compatible with this Python
Skipping https://pypi.python.org/packages/cp32/c/cryptography/cryptography-0.2.1-cp32-none-win32.whl#md5=53f6f57db8e952d64283baaa14cbde3d (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/cryptography/) because it is not compatible with this Python
Skipping https://pypi.python.org/packages/cp33/c/cryptography/cryptography-0.2-cp33-none-win32.whl#md5=302812c1c1a035cf9ba3292f8dbf3f9e (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/cryptography/) because it is not compatible with this Python
Skipping https://pypi.python.org/packages/cp33/c/cryptography/cryptography-0.2.1-cp33-none-win32.whl#md5=81acca90caf8a45f2ca73f3f9859fae4 (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/cryptography/) because it is not compatible with this Python
Found link https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/cryptography/cryptography-0.1.tar.gz#md5=bdc1c5fe069deca7467b71a0cc538f17 (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/cryptography/), version: 0.1
Found link https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/cryptography/cryptography-0.2.1.tar.gz#md5=872fc04268dadc66a0305ae5ab1c123b (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/cryptography/), version: 0.2.1
Found link https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/cryptography/cryptography-0.2.tar.gz#md5=8a3d21e837a21e1b7634ee1f22b06bb6 (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/cryptography/), version: 0.2
Using version 0.2.1 (newest of versions: 0.2.1, 0.2, 0.1)
Downloading from URL https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/cryptography/cryptography-0.2.1.tar.gz#md5=872fc04268dadc66a0305ae5ab1c123b (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/cryptography/)
Running setup.py (path:c:\users\paco\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_Paco\cryptography\setup.py) egg_info for package cryptography
In file included from c/_cffi_backend.c:7:0:
c/misc_win32.h:225:23: error: two or more data types in declaration specifiers
c/misc_win32.h:225:1: warning: useless type name in empty declaration [enabled by default]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'convert_array_from_object':
c/_cffi_backend.c:1105:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1105:26: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1130:30: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1130:30: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1150:30: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1150:30: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'convert_struct_from_object':
c/_cffi_backend.c:1183:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1183:26: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1196:30: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1196:30: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'cdata_repr':
c/_cffi_backend.c:1583:13: warning: unknown conversion type character 'L' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1583:13: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1595:9: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1595:9: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'cdataowning_repr':
c/_cffi_backend.c:1647:30: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1647:30: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function '_cdata_get_indexed_ptr':
c/_cffi_backend.c:1820:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1820:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1820:26: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function '_cdata_getslicearg':
c/_cffi_backend.c:1872:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1872:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1872:26: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'cdata_ass_slice':
c/_cffi_backend.c:1951:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1951:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1951:26: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1969:30: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1969:30: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1969:30: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1983:22: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1983:22: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'cdata_call':
c/_cffi_backend.c:2367:30: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:2367:30: warning: format '%s' expects argument of type 'char *', but argument 3 has type 'Py_ssize_t' [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:2367:30: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'cast_to_integer_or_char':
c/_cffi_backend.c:2916:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:2916:26: warning: format '%s' expects argument of type 'char *', but argument 3 has type 'Py_ssize_t' [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:2916:26: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c:2928:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:2928:26: warning: format '%s' expects argument of type 'char *', but argument 3 has type 'Py_ssize_t' [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:2928:26: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'new_array_type':
c/_cffi_backend.c:3480:9: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:3480:9: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'b_complete_struct_or_union':
c/_cffi_backend.c:3878:22: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:3878:22: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:3878:22: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
File "c:\users\paco\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_Paco\cryptography\setup.py", line 113, in <module>
"build": cffi_build,
File "D:\Anaconda\lib\distutils\core.py", line 112, in setup
_setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\dist.py", line 239, in __init__
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\dist.py", line 264, in fetch_build_eggs
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\pkg_resources.py", line 580, in resolve
dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match(req, ws, installer)
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\pkg_resources.py", line 818, in best_match
return self.obtain(req, installer) # try and download/install
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\pkg_resources.py", line 830, in obtain
return installer(requirement)
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\dist.py", line 314, in fetch_build_egg
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 593, in easy_install
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 623, in install_item
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 809, in install_eggs
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1015, in build_and_install
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1003, in run_setup
distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
In file included from c/_cffi_backend.c:7:0:
c/misc_win32.h:225:23: error: two or more data types in declaration specifiers
c/misc_win32.h:225:1: warning: useless type name in empty declaration [enabled by default]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'convert_array_from_object':
c/_cffi_backend.c:1105:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1105:26: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1130:30: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1130:30: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1150:30: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1150:30: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'convert_struct_from_object':
c/_cffi_backend.c:1183:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1183:26: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1196:30: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1196:30: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'cdata_repr':
c/_cffi_backend.c:1583:13: warning: unknown conversion type character 'L' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1583:13: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1595:9: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1595:9: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'cdataowning_repr':
c/_cffi_backend.c:1647:30: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1647:30: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function '_cdata_get_indexed_ptr':
c/_cffi_backend.c:1820:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1820:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1820:26: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function '_cdata_getslicearg':
c/_cffi_backend.c:1872:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1872:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1872:26: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'cdata_ass_slice':
c/_cffi_backend.c:1951:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1951:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1951:26: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1969:30: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1969:30: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1969:30: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1983:22: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:1983:22: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'cdata_call':
c/_cffi_backend.c:2367:30: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:2367:30: warning: format '%s' expects argument of type 'char *', but argument 3 has type 'Py_ssize_t' [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:2367:30: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'cast_to_integer_or_char':
c/_cffi_backend.c:2916:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:2916:26: warning: format '%s' expects argument of type 'char *', but argument 3 has type 'Py_ssize_t' [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:2916:26: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c:2928:26: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:2928:26: warning: format '%s' expects argument of type 'char *', but argument 3 has type 'Py_ssize_t' [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:2928:26: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'new_array_type':
c/_cffi_backend.c:3480:9: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:3480:9: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
c/_cffi_backend.c: In function 'b_complete_struct_or_union':
c/_cffi_backend.c:3878:22: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:3878:22: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat]
c/_cffi_backend.c:3878:22: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
File "c:\users\paco\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_Paco\cryptography\setup.py", line 113, in <module>
"build": cffi_build,
File "D:\Anaconda\lib\distutils\core.py", line 112, in setup
_setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\dist.py", line 239, in __init__
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\dist.py", line 264, in fetch_build_eggs
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\pkg_resources.py", line 580, in resolve
dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match(req, ws, installer)
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\pkg_resources.py", line 818, in best_match
return self.obtain(req, installer) # try and download/install
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\pkg_resources.py", line 830, in obtain
return installer(requirement)
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\dist.py", line 314, in fetch_build_egg
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 593, in easy_install
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 623, in install_item
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 809, in install_eggs
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1015, in build_and_install
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1003, in run_setup
distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Removing temporary dir c:\users\paco\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_Paco...
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in c:\users\paco\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_Paco\cryptography
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip-1.5.4-py2.7.egg\pip\basecommand.py", line 122, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip-1.5.4-py2.7.egg\pip\commands\install.py", line 278, in run
requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)
File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip-1.5.4-py2.7.egg\pip\req.py", line 1229, in prepare_files
req_to_install.run_egg_info()
File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip-1.5.4-py2.7.egg\pip\req.py", line 325, in run_egg_info
command_desc='python setup.py egg_info')
File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pip-1.5.4-py2.7.egg\pip\util.py", line 697, in call_subprocess
% (command_desc, proc.returncode, cwd))
InstallationError: Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in c:\users\paco\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_Paco\cryptography
I found other egg_info error posts (here and here) but the solutions there provided wouldn't solve my problem. Also, I am able to install other packages through PIP.
PIP version 1.5.4 setuptools version 2.2
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
I had a similar issue, and found I was simply missing a dependency (libssl-dev, for me). As referenced in https://cryptography.io/en/latest/installation/, ensure that all dependencies are met:
On Windows
If you’re on Windows you’ll need to make sure you have OpenSSL installed. There are pre-compiled binaries available. If your installation is in an unusual location set the LIB and INCLUDE environment variables to include the corresponding locations. For example:
C:\> \path\to\vcvarsall.bat x86_amd64
C:\> set LIB=C:\OpenSSL-1.0.1f-64bit\lib;%LIB%
C:\> set INCLUDE=C:\OpenSSL-1.0.1f-64bit\include;%INCLUDE%
C:\> pip install cryptography
Building cryptography on Linux
cryptography should build very easily on Linux provided you have a C compiler, headers for Python (if you’re not using pypy), and headers for the OpenSSL and libffi libraries available on your system.
For Debian and Ubuntu, the following command will ensure that the required dependencies are installed:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev
For Fedora and RHEL-derivatives, the following command will ensure that the required dependencies are installed:
sudo yum install gcc libffi-devel python-devel OpenSSL-devel
You should now be able to build and install cryptography with the usual.
pip install cryptography
Solution 2 - Python
This is a condensed version of the information found on cryptography's installation docs page. Consult that page for the latest details.
Since this SO question keeps coming up I'll drop a response here too (I am one of the pyca/cryptography developers). Here's what you need to reliably install pyca/cryptography on the 3 major platforms.
Please note in all these cases it is highly recommended that you install into a virtualenv and not into the global package space. This is not specific to cryptography but rather is generic advice to keep your Python installation reliable. The global package space in OS provided Pythons is owned by the system and installing things via pip into it is asking for trouble.
Windows
Upgrade to the latest pip and just pip install cryptography
cryptography and cffi are both shipped as statically linked wheels.
macOS (OS X)
Upgrade to the latest pip and just pip install cryptography
cryptography and cffi are both shipped as statically linked wheels. This will work for pyenv Python, system Python, homebrew Python, etc. As long as you're on the latest pip you won't even need a compiler.
Linux
Users with the latest pip (upgrade!) running on a glibc-based or musl-based distribution and on x86/x86-64/aarch64 no longer need a compiler or headers because you'll get a precompiled wheel automatically. So, first thing you should try is upgrading your pip and installing the latest cryptography version as older versions don't get newer wheel types.
If you aren't manylinux/musllinux compatible or wish to compile against your own OpenSSL then here's what you need to do:
You'll need a C compiler, a Rust compiler, libffi + its development headers, and openssl + its development headers.
Debian or Ubuntu derived distributions
apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev followed by
pip install cryptography
Red Hat derived distributions
yum install gcc openssl-devel libffi-devel python-devel followed by
pip install cryptography
Note that as of version 3.4 cryptography now requires a Rust compiler at build time (not at runtime) so you will additionally need Rust >= 1.41.0. Check your distribution's rust or install it via rustup
Solution 3 - Python
For those of you running OS X, here is what worked for me:
brew install openssl
env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include"
pip install cryptography
(Running 10.9 Mavericks)
You may also want to try merging the flags and pip commands to the following per the comment below:
brew install openssl
env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include" pip install cryptography
Solution 4 - Python
This worked for me in El Capitan
brew install pkg-config libffi openssl
env LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib" CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include" pip install cryptography
You can also check the thread here : https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/2350
Solution 5 - Python
This solved the problem for me (Ubuntu 16.04):
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev python3-dev
and then it was working like this:
pip install cryptography
pip install pyopenssl ndg-httpsclient pyasn1
Solution 6 - Python
Apparently on recent versions of OSX this may be caused by Apple shipping their own version of OpenSSL, which doesn't work with the cryptography library.
Recent versions of the cryptography library ship with their own native dependencies, but to get them you'll need to upgrade pip, and possibly also virtual env. So for me, the solution was:
pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall pip virtualenv
Solution 7 - Python
I tried many solutions above, but only after the installation of the following lib I could install cryptography:
sudo apt install libssl1.0
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04, but it will work on Ubuntu 18.10 as well.
UPD:
To solve this error on Ubuntu 20 I had to replace cryptography==1.9 with cryptography==2.1.1
Solution 8 - Python
How I solved "Failed cleaning build dir for cryptography"
(I came here from google to result for this error.)
note: using a virtualenv
TL;DR:
my file /etc/apt/sources.list wasn't correctly configured for my debian 8.
Explanations:
I wanted to install paramiko. paramiko needs cryptography.
I got these errors:
first with pip install cryptography:
(...)
----------------------------------------
Failed cleaning build dir for cryptography
Failed to build cryptography
(...)
----------------------------------------
Command "/home/myuser/pyenvs/testo/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-HXWKAO/cryptography/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-WjqY6V-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/myuser/pyenvs/testo/include/site/python2.7/cryptography" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-HXWKAO/cryptography/
and then with sudo apt-get install build-essential :
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
build-essential : Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed > or
libc-dev
Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.4.3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: g++ (>= 4:4.4.3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
(Not exactly the same errors as OP but I'm here to help eventually)
Solving:
After testing almost every command from every posts I end up going on
https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList<br/>
and copy pasted my adequate config in the file /etc/apt/sources.list
then:
sudo aptitude update
and then
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev
and then
pip install cryptography
hth
Solution 9 - Python
This worked for me (I'm using Ubuntu 14.04):
first install libffi-dev libssl-dev libpython2.7-dev:
sudo apt-get install libffi-dev libssl-dev libpython2.7-dev
then inside virtualenv:
pip install cryptography
pip install pyopenssl ndg-httpsclient pyasn1
Sources:
Solution 10 - Python
Nick Woodham's answer didn't work on OSX 10.11 El Capitan for me, but this did.
brew install openssl
CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include" pip install cryptography==0.8
Solution 11 - Python
In case that you are dockerizing your python application, your Dockerfile needs to have something like:
FROM python:3.7-alpine
RUN apk add --update alpine-sdk && apk add libffi-dev openssl-dev
RUN pip install cryptography
Solution 12 - Python
If you are building a python package distribution in a .gitlab-ci.yml file in for GitLab CI that uses a gitlab runner deployed in an AWS EC2 machine
- apk add --update alpine-sdk && \
- apk add libffi-dev openssl-dev && \
- apk --no-cache --update add build-base
Solution 13 - Python
If you are using python3, you need to install python3-dev. This fixed my problem sudo apt-get install python3-dev.
Solution 14 - Python
I was having issues with installing cryptography==1.7.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 and none of the answers above helped. So, I upgraded the requirement to a compatible 1.8.2 and the setup was successful. Note that you would still need build essentials & other dependencies mentioned in the top (most upvoted) answer.
Solution 15 - Python
I was having a problem running sudo pip install cryptography because it would not find ffi when trying to compile. (OSX - Yosemite)
I solved it by downloading libffi and setting up the env var.
$ brew install pkg-config libffi
$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/libffi/3.0.13/lib/pkgconfig/
$ pip install cryptography
Solution 16 - Python
I noticed the original poster was clearly using a windows installation... and the best answers above are all for other OSs... so here goes. This assumes you have installed Python 2.7 which is the most widely supported (though old) version.
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Install the "Visual C++ Compiler for Python"
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Open an Administrative command prompt window
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Re-run pip install (package) e.g.
cd C:\Python27\Scripts pip install cryptography (or pycrypto, fabric, etc)
Solution 17 - Python
This works on El Capitan with MacPorts:
$ sudo port install openssl
$ env LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib" CFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include" pip install cryptography
Solution 18 - Python
I encountered a similar issue recently. In my case the versions of cffi and cryptography written in requirements.txt weren't compatible (cffi==1.8.9 and cryptography==1.9). I solved updating cffi with the last available version.
Solution 19 - Python
Upgrading pip version solved the problem
pip install --upgrade pip (for mac/linux distros)
Solution 20 - Python
I actually ran into this same prob trying to install Scrapy which depends on cryptography being installed first. I'm on Win764-bit with Python 2.7 64-bit installed. @jsonm's answer eventually worked for me, but first I had to Copy C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\vcvarsx86_amd64.bat to the x86_amd64 subdir within that bin dir so the vcvarsall.bat would stop throwing an error saying it was missing the config. If you need to configure env vars for a different setup, be sure to copy to corresponding vcvars bat file to the corresponding subdir or the first command below might not work.
Then I ran the following from a commandline as per @jsonm's instructions (tweaked for my config)...
C:\> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86_amd64
C:\> set LIB=C:\OpenSSL-Win64\lib;%LIB%
C:\> set INCLUDE=C:\OpenSSL-Win64\include;%INCLUDE%
C:\> pip install cryptography
And it worked.
Solution 21 - Python
I had this error too. After continuing to get this error even after installing openSSL, I eventually tried installing from wheel files from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cryptography/0.2.2#downloads. It worked!
Solution 22 - Python
i downloaded paramiko full source code from pypi and did
python setup.py install
it worked flawlessly
all default pythondev / openssl /libffi packages are already present in rhel.
downloading rpms have rpm mismatch and more trouble
Solution 23 - Python
Use conda instead
None of the proposed solutions worked for me on Raspbian 10 (buster) so I just installed it via conda and voila:
conda install -c anaconda cryptography
P.S. : I know that the question mentions pip but I see that OP is using a conda installation so I thought of sharing this solution anyway. Nevertheless, since this problem is apparently OS-specific, it's meaningful to remind one that conda is a cross-platform solution which may also install necessary binaries apart from python packages - with just an one-liner.
Solution 24 - Python
you have to upgrade your pip before running your installation
Solution 25 - Python
I am having same problem:
pip install cryptography
.
.
.
Installing collected packages: cffi, cryptography
Running setup.py install for cffi ... error
Then I install libffi-devel and problem is solved
yum install libffi-devel
Solution 26 - Python
Those two commands fixed it for me:
brew install openssl
brew link openssl --force
Source: https://github.com/phusion/passenger/issues/1630#issuecomment-147527656
Solution 27 - Python
I resolved this by upgrading from cryptography 1.9 to 2.4.2
Solution 28 - Python
Had same issue in Cygwin, this is what helped me
sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev
but instead of sudo apt-get install, I installed those packages via Cygwin Source of this code