Error installing python-snappy: snappy-c.h: No such file or directory

Question

I am using amazon ec2 ubuntu 11.04 server

 sudo pip install python-snappy

also I tried to downloaded package and entered "sudo python setup.py install"

I got the error:

  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'snappy' extension
  gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c snappymodule.cc -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/snappymodule.o
  cc1plus: warning: command line option ‘-Wstrict-prototypes’ is valid for Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++ [enabled by default]
  snappymodule.cc:31:22: fatal error: snappy-c.h: No such file or directory
  compilation terminated.
  error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

How i could get rid of this error?

source: https://github.com/andrix/python-snappy

install [snappy](http://code.google.com/p/snappy/) C library. — jfs, Jul 10 '12 at 14:57
Can you share how do you install snappy C library? Add that to the path before python install or sth else. Thanks — B.Mr.W., Aug 26 '13 at 21:50

score 141 · Answer 1 · edited May 27 '23 at 20:35

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You can install Snappy C library with following commands:

DEB-based: sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev

RPM-based: sudo yum install csnappy-devel

Alpine (Docker) apk add --no-cache snappy-dev g++

openSUSE: sudo zypper in snappy-devel

MacOS: See Riley's answer below.

edited May 27 '23 at 20:35

Masood Khaari

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answered Dec 19 '13 at 09:45

Tim

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if on a mac and brew is installed, then `brew install snappy` also works. – bsegraves Jan 07 '15 at 03:09
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I think it is `sudo yum install snappy-devel` – Madhur Ahuja May 15 '16 at 03:40
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Its (tried on centos7) `yum install csnappy-devel` – Tabrez Shaikh Feb 16 '17 at 14:39
Thanks `sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev` worked for me, I am using ubuntu 18.04 and python 3.6.9 – Vikas Chitturi Aug 24 '20 at 05:24
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For alpine linux (for docker) `apk add --no-cache snappy-dev g++` solved the problem – Károly Szabó Feb 09 '23 at 11:10

score 55 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 17 '17 at 22:01

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According to the repo

How to install it on Mac OS X?

It has been reported a few times (Issue #7 and #23) that it can't be installed correctly the library in Mac. The procedure should be,

$ brew install snappy # snappy library from Google 
$ CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib" pip install python-snappy

answered Jan 17 '17 at 22:01

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The `CPPFLAGS` part was essential. This is missing from every other answer, and very hidden in the `python-snappy` docs. – mcskinner Apr 17 '20 at 06:14
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`CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/include -L/opt/homebrew/lib"` for Apple Silicon – villasv Feb 03 '22 at 20:32
Just an FYI - appending the CPPFLAGS to `poetry install` didn't work but going into shell and doing `pip install` with the prepended Env works. – David Mar 09 '23 at 22:59

score 21 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 09 '20 at 15:02

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You need Snappy C library

Then you have to install python-snappy wrapper.

It seems you didn't install Snappy-C library

Try it ..as already a fellow commented for your post

UPDATE: See more highly upvoted post below, which includes instructions to install on DEB-based, RPM-based, and Mac OS (Brew).

edited Jan 09 '20 at 15:02

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answered Jul 10 '12 at 15:33

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on RPM-based execute: `wget url_to_download_snappy; tar xf snappy-x.y.z.tar.gz; cd snappy-x.y.z; ./configure; make install; pip install python-snappy` – Zahra Jun 12 '17 at 21:57
Snappy library has moved to github, thus it won't work anymore – Nicolò Gasparini Feb 06 '19 at 10:47
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For Debian based system, following should work : sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev – Arnab Biswas Jul 08 '20 at 07:23
sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev -> worked got ubuntu! – Luis Kimura Dec 08 '20 at 19:30

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 15 '15 at 10:05

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You download snappy lib at here: https://code.google.com/p/snappy/
Extract it
Install by command lines follows: $: ./configure $: make $: make install
Install python-snappy: $: pip install python-snappy

answered Jul 15 '15 at 10:05

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score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 24 '18 at 09:59

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I had some trouble getting snappy to install. Finally downloaded the pre-build stuff as offered by https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ and all went well. (Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages)

answered Oct 24 '18 at 09:59

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Shubham Choudhary · Answer 6 · 2020-02-28T14:22:04.097

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for Oracle Linux with Python 3.X:

you need to enable optional_latest repository as a first step,

use for enabling the following repo

$ yum-config-manager --enable ol7_optional_latest

"ol7_optional_latest" repo will be enabled for yum lookup.
then install packages using,

$ yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ snappy snappy-devel
then with pip install the python-snappy package,

$ pip3 install python-snappy

edited Feb 28 '20 at 14:22

answered Feb 27 '20 at 13:52

Shubham Choudhary

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can you also try with RHEL8, if possible. I am facing such issue https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62962861/snappy-c-h-no-such-file-or-directory – vector8188 Jul 19 '20 at 04:29

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Jul 27 '16 at 22:19

had lots of issues installing on El Capitan, with an error saying that the snappy-c.h file was not found.

Had to install snappy from tar.gz file https://github.com/google/snappy/releases/download/1.1.3/snappy-1.1.3.tar.gz

untar and run

./configure
make
make install

it will put the header file in /usr/local/include

then needed to set FLAGS for the cc compiler to find the header file:

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/include
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/snappy-c.h"
export CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/snappy-c.h"
export CXXFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/snappy-c.h"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"

and then I installed python-snappy from the egg file https://pypi.python.org/packages/b1/fe/1d632cdac5dbb5ce84db778af7f733eb469130d8cf4c02f6cd9057a96768/snappy-2.4.1-py2.7-macosx-10.5-intel.egg#md5=b76558c71f1d97feeb8402c345e466bf

you can try with pip install python-snappy but it originally failed to find the header file, so i went for the egg file

to install the egg:

easy_install <eggfile>
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

score 2 · Answer 8 · edited Sep 20 '16 at 07:37

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You need to check the output for

rpm -q snappy-devel

If it is not present, then install it using this command:

yum install snappy-devel

edited Sep 20 '16 at 07:37

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answered Sep 20 '16 at 07:21

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score 2 · Answer 9 · answered Mar 03 '20 at 01:36

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If you are on Mac OS X Catalina, you can install with

brew install snappy
CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -stdlib=libc++ " pip install python-snappy

as suggested by https://github.com/andrix/python-snappy FAQ

answered Mar 03 '20 at 01:36

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score 2 · Answer 10 · answered Dec 07 '21 at 08:48

Fix for macOS M1. You have to define absolute path to lib and include for snappy.

brew install snappy
pip install \                               
  --upgrade --ignore-installed \
  python-snappy==0.5.4 \
  --global-option=build_ext \
  --global-option="-I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/snappy/1.1.9/include" \
  --global-option="-L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/snappy/1.1.9/lib"

score 0 · Answer 11 · edited Dec 27 '18 at 09:29

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This fixed my issue:

yum install gcc-c++

edited Dec 27 '18 at 09:29

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answered Dec 27 '18 at 09:20

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radihuq · Answer 12 · 2019-09-12T07:31:17.187

I was having troubles with this for a while. FYI I'm trying to install Crossbar (https://crossbar.io/docs/Installation-on-Linux/)

I did a bunch of googling and messed around quite a bit. I'm using Python 3.7.4 and what I think solved my problem is this :

sudo yum install python-devel

if that doesn't work try

sudo yum install python3-devel

source:

https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/issues/1143#issuecomment-475354786

https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/issues/1143

score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Jun 06 '20 at 21:45

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To solve this issue in Mac OS X with MacPorts installed, you can do:

$ sudo port install snappy
$ CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib" pip install python-snappy

answered Jun 06 '20 at 21:45

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score 0 · Answer 14 · edited Jun 07 '22 at 16:41

For Windows

Download from here

Extract the Zip.
Copy the .h files from include folder. Paste in to the python installation folder C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\include\
Copy snappy64.lib from native folder. Paste in to python installation folder C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\libs\
Rename snappy64.lib to snappy.lib
you are good to go. Re-try command pip install -r .\requirements.txt

Error installing python-snappy: snappy-c.h: No such file or directory

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