How to install PyAutoGUI

Question

I am running OS X El Capitan v. 10.11.3

I am trying to install PyAutoGUI

On Terminal, I did the following successfully:

sudo pip3 install pyobjc-core  
sudo pip3 install pyobjc

When I tried running "sudo pip3 install pyautogui" I got the following error in Terminal:

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip-build-skuvquyu/pyscreeze

I am not sure what to do about this so if anyone has any advice, I would appreciate it.

Thanks

Answer 1

i have installed pyautogui on my windows :

1. I went to my python directory
2. There shift + right mouse click and open the command prompt
3. Type "python -m pip install pyautogui" (without quotes)

Answer 2

Now im using Ubuntu 14.04, but I would try installing the problematic module pyscreeze with:

sudo pip3 install pyscreeze

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I personally got another error about missing module called PIL

sudo pip3 install pillow

And then i got some error message about jpeg ValueError: jpeg is required unless explicitly disabled using --disable-jpeg, aborting

I hope you'll have more luck.

Answer 3

Found an answer to the problem

On Linux, this is:

sudo pip3 install python3-xlib

sudo apt-get install scrot

sudo apt-get install python3-tk

sudo apt-get install python3-dev

sudo pip3 install pyautogui

ta daaaa :D

Answer 4

It seems like there's a problem with pip. Try reinstalling it.

It'd be much better if you installed pyautogui directly from github.

Step 1:

git clone https://github.com/asweigart/pyautogui

Step 2:

cd pyautogui

Step 3:

sudo python3 setup.py install

If python3 doesn't work, try python.

Answer 5

This installation error has most likely been fixed as of version 0.9.34. The module tried to load the PIL/Pillow module during installation.