Unable to install pyvips on Ubuntu 21.04 (python3.9.2)

$ pip install --user pyvips
Collecting pyvips
  Using cached pyvips-2.1.14.tar.gz (43 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: cffi>=1.0.0 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.2/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from pyvips) (1.14.5)
Requirement already satisfied: pkgconfig in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.2/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from pyvips) (1.5.2)
Requirement already satisfied: pycparser in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.2/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from cffi>=1.0.0->pyvips) (2.20)
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for pyvips, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Installing collected packages: pyvips
    Running setup.py install for pyvips ... error
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /home/andre/.pyenv/versions/3.9.2/bin/python3.9 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-vxajqvu2/pyvips_e87d92d5a23a4be6ae27eaad8e0125c0/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-vxajqvu2/pyvips_e87d92d5a23a4be6ae27eaad8e0125c0/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-wnp4pb9_/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --user --prefix= --compile --install-headers /home/andre/.local/include/python3.9/pyvips
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-vxajqvu2/pyvips_e87d92d5a23a4be6ae27eaad8e0125c0/
    Complete output (37 lines):
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9
    creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/gobject.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/vtarget.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/error.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/vconnection.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/vobject.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/vtargetcustom.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/vinterpolate.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/gvalue.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/voperation.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/enums.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/vsourcecustom.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/version.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/pyvips_build.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/vsource.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/base.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/vimage.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/vregion.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    copying pyvips/vdecls.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.9/pyvips
    running build_ext
    generating cffi module 'build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.9/_libvips.c'
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.9
    building '_libvips' extension
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.9/build
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.9/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.9
    gcc -pthread -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -fPIC -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/orc-0.4 -I/usr/include/librsvg-2.0 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/uuid -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -I/home/andre/.pyenv/versions/3.9.2/include/python3.9 -c build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.9/_libvips.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.9/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.9/_libvips.o
    build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.9/_libvips.c:570:18: fatal error: vips/vips.h: No such file or directory
      570 |         #include <vips/vips.h>
          |                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
    compilation terminated.
    error: command '/usr/lib/ccache/gcc' failed with exit code 1
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /home/andre/.pyenv/versions/3.9.2/bin/python3.9 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-vxajqvu2/pyvips_e87d92d5a23a4be6ae27eaad8e0125c0/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-vxajqvu2/pyvips_e87d92d5a23a4be6ae27eaad8e0125c0/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-wnp4pb9_/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --user --prefix= --compile --install-headers /home/andre/.local/include/python3.9/pyvips Check the logs for full command output.

[AndKe]

This was because I needed “libvips-dev” Please handle this error more gracefully, and make the installation suggest all required dependencies: apt install libvips libvips-dev

[AndKe]

who knows 😃 - all I know is that I used a current release of pyvips for a project I currently work on before the distro upgrade, and got the error after. Thank you for looking into this.