Getting Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2 Is libxml2 installed when installing lxml through pip

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I m getting an error Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2  Is libxml2 installed  when trying to install lxml through pip    c  users f appdata local temp xmlXPathInitqjzysz c 1    fatal error C1083  Cannot open include file   libxml xpath h   No such file or directory                                                                                       Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2  Is libxml2 installed                                                                                        error  command  C   Users  f  AppData  Local  Programs  Common  Microsoft  Visual C   for Python  9 0  VC  Bin  cl exe  failed with exit status 2  I don t find any libxml2 dev packages to install via pip  Using Python 2 7 and Python 3 x on x86 in a virtualenv under Windows 10

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On Mac OS X El Capitan I had to run these two commands to fix this error:

xcode-select --install
pip install lxml

Which ended up installing lxml-3.5.0

When you run the xcode-select command you may have to sign a EULA (so have an X-Term handy for the UI if you're doing this on a headless machine).

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In case anyone else has the same issue as this on      Centos  try    yum install python-lxml      Ubuntu   sudo apt-get install -y python-lxml   worked for me

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Install lxml from http   www lfd uci edu  gohlke pythonlibs  lxml for your python version  It s a precompiled WHL with required modules dependencies  The site lists several packages  when e g  using Win32 Python 3 9  use lxml-4 5 2-cp39-cp39-win32 whl  Download the file  and then install with  pip install C  path to downloaded file lxml-4 5 2-cp39-cp39-win32 whl

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Try to use  easy install lxml That works for me  win10  python 2 7

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I had this issue and realised that whilst I did have libxml2 installed  I didn t have the necessary development libraries required by the python package  Installing them solved the problem   sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev sudo pip install lxml

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I tried install a lib that depends lxml and nothing works  I see a message when build was started   Building without Cython   so after install cython with apt-get install cython  lxml was installed

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set STATICBUILD true  amp  amp  pip install lxml   run this command instead  must have VS C   compiler installed first  https   blogs msdn microsoft com pythonengineering 2016 04 11 unable-to-find-vcvarsall-bat   It works for me with Python 3 5 2 and Windows 7

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I got the same error for python 32 bit  After install 64bit  the problem was fixed

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It is not strange for me that none of the solutions above came up  but I saw how the igd installation removed the new version and installed the old one  for the solution I downloaded this archive https   pypi org project igd  files  and changed the recommended version of the new version   lxml  4 3 0  in setup py It works

[python] Getting "Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed?" when installing lxml through pip

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