Pipenv install fails with "cannot open shared object libffi.so.6"

I’m running pipenv 2018.11.26 under Python 3.7.6 and Pip 20.0.2, under pyenv 1.2.18, with the Arch Linux operating system. Whenever I run pipenv install in this particular repository, it fails immediately. The libffi package in Arch Linux does not provide libffi.so.6; it only provides libffi.so.7. Maybe pipenv is relying on an outdated version of libffi? Has this been fixed in master?

pipenv install --verbose

Pipfile.lock not found, creating…
/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/vendor/attr/_make.py:618: RuntimeWarning: Missing ctypes.  Some features like bare super() or accessing __class__ will not work with slots classes.
  set_closure_cell(cell, cls)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/bin/pipenv", line 10, in <module>
    sys.exit(cli())
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/vendor/click/core.py", line 764, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/vendor/click/core.py", line 717, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/vendor/click/core.py", line 1137, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/vendor/click/core.py", line 956, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/vendor/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/vendor/click/decorators.py", line 64, in new_func
    return ctx.invoke(f, obj, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/vendor/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/vendor/click/decorators.py", line 17, in new_func
    return f(get_current_context(), *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/cli/command.py", line 254, in install
    editable_packages=state.installstate.editables,
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/core.py", line 1874, in do_install
    keep_outdated=keep_outdated
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/core.py", line 1244, in do_init
    pypi_mirror=pypi_mirror,
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/core.py", line 1035, in do_lock
    dev_packages = project.dev_packages.copy()
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/project.py", line 673, in dev_packages
    return self._build_package_list("dev-packages")
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/project.py", line 221, in _build_package_list
    any(is_installable_file(i) for i in [k, v])
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/project.py", line 221, in <genexpr>
    any(is_installable_file(i) for i in [k, v])
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/utils.py", line 902, in is_installable_file
    from .patched.notpip._internal.utils.packaging import specifiers
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/patched/notpip/_internal/utils/packaging.py", line 10, in <module>
    from pipenv.patched.notpip._internal import exceptions
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/patched/notpip/_internal/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
    from pipenv.patched.notpip._internal.cli.autocompletion import autocomplete
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/patched/notpip/_internal/cli/autocompletion.py", line 8, in <module>
    from pipenv.patched.notpip._internal.cli.main_parser import create_main_parser
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/patched/notpip/_internal/cli/main_parser.py", line 12, in <module>
    from pipenv.patched.notpip._internal.commands import (
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/patched/notpip/_internal/commands/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from pipenv.patched.notpip._internal.commands.completion import CompletionCommand
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/patched/notpip/_internal/commands/completion.py", line 6, in <module>
    from pipenv.patched.notpip._internal.cli.base_command import Command
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/patched/notpip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 18, in <module>
    from pipenv.patched.notpip._internal.download import PipSession
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/patched/notpip/_internal/download.py", line 39, in <module>
    from pipenv.patched.notpip._internal.utils.glibc import libc_ver
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv/patched/notpip/_internal/utils/glibc.py", line 3, in <module>
    import ctypes
  File "/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from _ctypes import Union, Structure, Array
ImportError: libffi.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

$ pipenv --support

Pipenv version: '2018.11.26'

Pipenv location: '/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv'

Python location: '/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/bin/python3.7'

Python installations found:

• 3.8.2: /usr/bin/python3.8
• 3.7.6: /home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/bin/python3
• 3.7.6: /home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/bin/python3.7m

PEP 508 Information:

{'implementation_name': 'cpython',
 'implementation_version': '3.7.6',
 'os_name': 'posix',
 'platform_machine': 'x86_64',
 'platform_python_implementation': 'CPython',
 'platform_release': '5.5.13-zen2-1-zen',
 'platform_system': 'Linux',
 'platform_version': '#1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:45:45 +0000',
 'python_full_version': '3.7.6',
 'python_version': '3.7',
 'sys_platform': 'linux'}

System environment variables:

• SHELL
• PYENV_HOOK_PATH
• COLORTERM
• PYENV_SHELL
• I3SOCK
• XCURSOR_SIZE
• EDITOR
• PYENV_VERSION
• XDG_SEAT
• PWD
• LOGNAME
• XDG_SESSION_TYPE
• HOME
• LANG
• LS_COLORS
• STARSHIP_SHELL
• SWAYSOCK
• WAYLAND_DISPLAY
• KITTY_WINDOW_ID
• INVOCATION_ID
• SYSTEMD_HOME
• PYENV_DIR
• QT_QPA_PLATFORM
• XDG_SESSION_CLASS
• TERMINFO
• TERM
• USER
• SDL_VIDEODRIVER
• DISPLAY
• SHLVL
• MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND
• XDG_VTNR
• XDG_SESSION_ID
• XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
• PYENV_ROOT
• JOURNAL_STREAM
• PATH
• DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
• MAIL
• PIP_DISABLE_PIP_VERSION_CHECK
• PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
• PIP_SHIMS_BASE_MODULE
• PIP_PYTHON_PATH
• PYTHONFINDER_IGNORE_UNSUPPORTED

Pipenv–specific environment variables:

Debug–specific environment variables:

• PATH: /home/jwinnie/.pyenv/versions/3.7.6/bin:/usr/share/pyenv/libexec:/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/shims:/home/jwinnie/.config/nvm/12.16.1/bin:/home/jwinnie/.pyenv/shims:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl
• SHELL: /usr/bin/fish
• EDITOR: nvim
• LANG: en_US.UTF-8
• PWD: /home/jwinnie/code/websuggest-django

---

Contents of Pipfile (‘/home/jwinnie/code/websuggest-django/Pipfile’):

[[source]]
url = "https://pypi.python.org/simple"
verify_ssl = true
name = "pypi"

[packages]
Django = "*"
django-crispy-forms = "*"
pytz = "*"
django-htmlmin = "*"
django-mathfilters = "*"
requests = "*"
uwsgi = "*"
werkzeug = "*"
django-extensions = "*"
django-webpack-loader = "*"
"maxminddb-geolite2" = "*"
jsonfield = "*"
django-basicauth = "*"
python-dateutil = "*"
dj-database-url = "*"
psycopg2 = "*"

[dev-packages]
"flake8" = "*"
"flake8-mypy" = "*"
"flake8-isort" = "*"

[requires]
python_version = "3.7.6"

[tybrs]

I had this issue too but then I rebuilt the python version i was using in the pipenv and it worked fine: pyenv install <version> .

[tybrs]

I think what happened is that arch changed its dependencies for libffi so when you upgraded arch packages it likely broke older versions of python built on the older libffi: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/trunk?h=packages/libffi