I'm trying to install "libxml2" and "libxslt" in order to use scrapy (web scraping with python) on a mac.
I have homebrew and I ran
$ brew install libxml2 libxslt
I get this message
OS X already provides this software and installing another version in parallel can cause all kinds of trouble.
When I try to instal scrapy, using
$ pip install scrapy
I get this error:
Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed?
Perhaps try: xcode-select --install
When I try
$ xcode-select libxml2 install
I get an invalid argument error.
Any suggestions?
You should run $ xcode-select --install. This will install the XCode command line tools which include libxml2.