Bench init frappe Failed building wheel for Pillow Failed building wheel for lxml

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After getting psycopg2 issue out of the way, I’m once more stuck with error, this time with the pip packages Pillow and lxml:

$ bench init frappe
INFO:bench.utils:virtualenv -q env -p /usr/bin/python
Already using interpreter /usr/bin/python
INFO:bench.utils:env/bin/pip -q install --upgrade pip
INFO:bench.utils:env/bin/pip -q install wheel
INFO:bench.utils:env/bin/pip -q install six
INFO:bench.utils:env/bin/pip -q install -e git+https://github.com/frappe/python-pdfkit.git#egg=pdfkit
INFO:bench.app:getting app frappe
INFO:bench.utils:git clone https://github.com/frappe/frappe.git   --origin upstream
Cloning into 'frappe'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 52, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (52/52), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (49/49), done.
remote: Total 160689 (delta 11), reused 16 (delta 3), pack-reused 160637
Receiving objects: 100% (160689/160689), 178.98 MiB | 1.21 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (122269/122269), done.
Checking out files: 100% (2291/2291), done.
('installing', u'frappe')
INFO:bench.app:installing frappe
INFO:bench.utils:frappe/env/bin/pip install -q  -e frappe/apps/frappe 
  Failed building wheel for Pillow
  Failed building wheel for lxml
Command "/home/frappe/frappe/env/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-AneHUg/Pillow/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-qQ63Y3/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/frappe/frappe/env/include/site/python2.7/Pillow" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-AneHUg/Pillow/                                      
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/bench", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(cli())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bench/cli.py", line 40, in cli
    bench_command()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 764, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 717, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 956, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bench/commands/make.py", line 30, in init
    python               = python)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bench/utils.py", line 75, in init
    get_app(frappe_path, branch=frappe_branch, bench_path=path, build_asset_files=False, verbose=verbose)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bench/app.py", line 135, in get_app
    install_app(app=app_name, bench_path=bench_path, verbose=verbose)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bench/app.py", line 179, in install_app
    find_links=find_links))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bench/utils.py", line 159, in exec_cmd
    raise CommandFailedError(cmd)
bench.utils.CommandFailedError: frappe/env/bin/pip install -q  -e frappe/apps/frappe

For context, I’m doing a manual install on a debootsrap’d Debian system.

  • apt dependencies I’ve installed so far from distro repo: git build-essential python-setuptools python-dev libffi-dev libpq-dev libssl nginx mariadb-server-10.3 redis-server xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base
  • nodejs from its repository, and npm yarn
  • pip -e bench from git repo
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As it turns out, it was because OS library dependencies of Pillow and lxml wasn’t installed. Installing dependencies specified by their respective documentations solve the issue.