I am running RHEL 9.2 with Python v3.9.16, and I am trying to install the libvirt-python Python package. I have tried installing using pip and pipenv, and I get the same error every time.
I have the libvirt and KVM packages installed (via dnf) and working. I am able to interact with VMs with virsh through the cli.
I have read the other similar posts on stack, and those solutions didn't work for me. Any suggestions on what might be the issue?
$ pip install libvirt-python
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting libvirt-python
Downloading libvirt-python-9.7.0.tar.gz (132 kB)
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Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Installing backend dependencies ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: libvirt-python
Building wheel for libvirt-python (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× Building wheel for libvirt-python (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [51 lines of output]
running bdist_wheel
running build
running build_py
Package 'libvirt' was not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/bill/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
main()
File "/home/bill/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 335, in main
json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
File "/home/bill/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 251, in build_wheel
return _build_backend().build_wheel(wheel_directory, config_settings,
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 434, in build_wheel
return self._build_with_temp_dir(
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 419, in _build_with_temp_dir
self.run_setup()
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 341, in run_setup
exec(code, locals())
File "<string>", line 284, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 103, in setup
return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 185, in setup
return run_commands(dist)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 201, in run_commands
dist.run_commands()
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 969, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 989, in run_command
super().run_command(command)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 988, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/normal/lib/python3.9/site-packages/wheel/bdist_wheel.py", line 364, in run
self.run_command("build")
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 318, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 989, in run_command
super().run_command(command)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 988, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/build.py", line 131, in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 318, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 989, in run_command
super().run_command(command)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-cx5clem5/overlay/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 988, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "<string>", line 166, in run
File "<string>", line 35, in check_minimum_libvirt_version
File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 373, in check_call
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['pkg-config', '--print-errors', '--atleast-version=0.9.11', 'libvirt']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
[end of output]
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
ERROR: Failed building wheel for libvirt-python
Failed to build libvirt-python
ERROR: Could not build wheels for libvirt-python, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
Here are the libvirt related packages I have installed:
$ sudo dnf list | grep libvirt
libvirt.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-client.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-config-network.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-driver-interface.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-driver-network.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-driver-secret.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-daemon-kvm.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-dbus.x86_64 1.4.1-5.el9 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-glib.x86_64 4.0.0-3.el9 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-libs.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
pcp-pmda-libvirt.x86_64 6.0.1-5.el9_2 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
python3-libvirt.x86_64 9.0.0-1.el9 @rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64 4.10.0-43.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
fence-virtd-libvirt.x86_64 4.10.0-43.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms
libvirt-nss.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms
libvirt-nss.x86_64 9.0.0-10.3.el9_2 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms