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install Pyaudio - whl

I tried to install PyAudio on Windows 7 64bit. Installing it with pip throws dependency errors which end up in the question how to satisfy those. So i tried to install it with wheel, the suggestion was to just use pip install:

D:\Programming\Kivy>dir
...
27.03.2015  08:11           113.556 PyAudio.whl

D:\Programming\Kivy>pip install PyAudio.whl
Downloading/unpacking PyAudio.whl
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement PyAudio.whl
No distributions at all found for PyAudio.whl
Storing complete log in C:\Users\WindowsPro\AppData\Roaming\pip\pip.log

Any suggestion how to install pyaudio?

Solution

  • What version of pip do you have? Show the output pip -V. It might be necessary to have a current pip version 6 to install the whl. If this is not the case do pip install --upgrade pip (it might be necessary to start the console with admin rights).

    Did you download the library from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyaudio? I just installed this version with pip and it works.

    As an alternative you can download the installer exe from http://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/#downloads and install it like a regular program.