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pip3 install pyautogui, error code 1

I can't install pyautogui i've tried everything, such as 

pip3 install pillow

also followed the steps on the website pyautogui website. Here is the message i receive when installing. 

root@alex-Ai:/# pip3 install pyautogui
Collecting pyautogui
Using cached PyAutoGUI-0.9.36.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Xlib/xauth.py", line 42, in __init__
    raw = open(filename, 'rb').read()
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/root/.Xauthority'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/tmp/pip-build-mvyjt7lg/pyautogui/setup.py", line 6, in <module>
    version=__import__('pyautogui').__version__,
  File "/tmp/pip-build-mvyjt7lg/pyautogui/pyautogui/__init__.py", line 115, in <module>
    from . import _pyautogui_x11 as platformModule
  File "/tmp/pip-build-mvyjt7lg/pyautogui/pyautogui/_pyautogui_x11.py", line 160, in <module>
    _display = Display(os.environ['DISPLAY'])
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Xlib/display.py", line 80, in __init__
    self.display = _BaseDisplay(display)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Xlib/display.py", line 62, in __init__
    display.Display.__init__(*(self, ) + args, **keys)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Xlib/protocol/display.py", line 61, in __init__
    name, host, displayno)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Xlib/support/connect.py", line 93, in get_auth
    return getattr(mod, modname).get_auth(sock, dname, host, dno)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Xlib/support/unix_connect.py", line 116, in new_get_auth
    au = xauth.Xauthority()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Xlib/xauth.py", line 44, in __init__
    raise error.XauthError('~/.Xauthority: %s' % err)
Xlib.error.XauthError: ~/.Xauthority: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/root/.Xauthority'

----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-mvyjt7lg/pyautogui/

@phd "sudo -H pip3 install pyautogui " gives me this error 

      alex@aimarket:/home$ sudo -H pip3 install pyautogui
      Collecting pyautogui
      Using cached PyAutoGUI-0.9.36.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/tmp/pip-build-efkrhbdk/pyautogui/setup.py", line 6, in <module>
    version=__import__('pyautogui').__version__,
  File "/tmp/pip-build-efkrhbdk/pyautogui/pyautogui/__init__.py", line 115, in <module>
    from . import _pyautogui_x11 as platformModule
  File "/tmp/pip-build-efkrhbdk/pyautogui/pyautogui/_pyautogui_x11.py", line 7, in <module>
    from Xlib.display import Display
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Xlib'

----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-efkrhbdk/pyautogui/
Solution

  • The answer: pyautogui does not work with Ubuntu 17.10, because pyautogui needs run X11, so you must go into the login screen of Ubuntu and click on the gear icon, in there you'll have two options which are Ubuntu or Ubuntu on Xorg click on the Ubuntu on Xorg, this will give you the X11 feature which is needed. After that change, you can go back into terminal and run pip3 install pyautogui, this has solved it for me.