I got the following error while trying to install pyaudio using pip3 in ubuntu 16.04:
Collecting pyaudio
Downloading PyAudio-0.2.11.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: pyaudio
Running setup.py install for pyaudio ... error
Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-mxgvewdb/pyaudio/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-v55chjee-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.5
copying src/pyaudio.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.5
running build_ext
building '_portaudio' extension
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5/src
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python3.5m -c src/_portaudiomodule.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.5/src/_portaudiomodule.o
src/_portaudiomodule.c:29:23: fatal error: portaudio.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
----------------------------------------
Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-mxgvewdb/pyaudio/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-v55chjee-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-mxgvewdb/pyaudio/
This should help
sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev python-pyaudio python3-pyaudio
Tested on Ubuntu 18.04, Python 3.7.2, pyaudio 0.2.11
Added 8th of Jan 2021:
On Ubuntu 20.04 you have to use:
sudo apt install portaudio19-dev python3-pyaudio