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When I install spacy with pip it download a bunch of files but at the end this error comes and spacy is not getting installed although setuptools is installed.

Command "/usr/bin/python3.6 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-jugolqe4/murmurhash/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-record-fwk4l5m8/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-jugolqe4/murmurhash/

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  • Do you have a C compiler installed on your system? Commented Jun 13, 2018 at 14:01
  • No C is not installed on my system Commented Jun 14, 2018 at 2:27
  • Try installing some kind of C compiler (homebrew, xcode) and then installing spacy again. Commented Jun 14, 2018 at 9:51
  • I learned that homebrew and xcode are for mac I am currently on ubuntu 16.04. I had installed spacy before and then it worked fine without c compiler. Then why would it require c compiler now Commented Jun 14, 2018 at 16:46

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A lot of parts of spaCy are written in Cython for improved performance. Thus, in order to use spaCy library you need a C compiler to compile Cython code.

You could try running the following commands in your terminal and then retry installing spacy.

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc -v make -v
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