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Could not import the PyAudio C module '_portaudio'. (Mac M1), about Symbol not found: _PaMacCore_SetupChannelMap

I'm trying to import pyaudio on my Macbook with M1 chip. I have python version 3.9.6 and anaconda (python 3.8), and now using version on terminal is 3.9.6.
Before I get this error, I fixed 'brew install portaudio' & 'pip install pyaudio' problem. Portaudio & Pyaudio installed fine!
But when I try to import pyaudio,
Could not import the PyAudio C module '_portaudio'.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/hson/Desktop/k.A.I_speaker/test.py", line 2, in <module>
import make_pyaudio
File "/Users/hson/Desktop/k.A.I_speaker/make_pyaudio.py", line 1, in <module>
import pyaudio
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pyaudio.py", line 116, in <module>
import _portaudio as pa
ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_portaudio.cpython-39-darwin.so, 2): Symbol not found: _PaMacCore_SetupChannelMap
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_portaudio.cpython-39-darwin.so
Expected in: flat namespace
in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_portaudio.cpython-39-darwin.so
I tried uninstall portaudio&pyaudio and reinstall many times, but still I could not fix this problem.
Does anyone who get this problem and fix it?

There are two solutions dependent on which architecture you need to use.
For both, the version number after /portaudio/ may differ, please adjust to yours.
For Intel-based homebrew installation
For those who must use python packages which are not yet available for the arm-architecture, we must revert to intel-based Python packages. This is not trivial and took me almost a day, so I describe it to some time for people in need.
Here's what you need to do:
Run a terminal under Rosetta
Get Info | Run under Rosetta
Install homebrew as intel-based version
In terminal created in (1), run:
arch -x86_64 /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
Create alias for intel-based homebrew
In .bash_profile, insert:
alias ibrew="arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/brew"
Install boost and boost_python libraries:
With brew from step (3), run:
ibrew install --build-from-source -vd boost
ibrew install --build-from-source -vd boost-python3
Install portaudio
With brew from step (3), run:
ibrew install portaudio
ibrew link portaudio
KEY: This installs portaudio into /usr/local/Cellar/portaudio/19.7.0, and must be referenced for the pyaudio installation!!!
Install pyaudio
We now can install pyaudio with the portaudio version we installed by intel-based homebrew. The version number after /portaudio/ may differ, please adjust to yours.
python -m pip install --global-option='build_ext' --global-option='-I/usr/local/Cellar/portaudio/19.7.0/include' --global-option='-L/usr/local/Cellar/portaudio/19.7.0/lib' --force pyaudio
For ARM-based homebrew installation
use normal brew
Run:
brew install boost
brew install boost-python
brew install portaudio
brew link portaudio
install PyAudio
Run:
python -m pip install --global-option='build_ext' --global-option='-I/opt/homebrew/Cellar/portaudio/19.7.0/include' --global-option='-L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/portaudio/19.7.0/lib' pyaudio

"conda install portaudio pyaudio" worked on my m1 mac

Error while installing PyAudio on M1 Macbook even after installing portaudio

I have installed Xcode and Homebrew. Then I have also installed the portaudio package using Homebrew brew install portaudio. After doing that, I have tried to install PyAudio.
I have tried all the following commands:
pip install pyaudio
python3 -m pip install pyaudio
conda install -c anaconda pyaudio
I am currently trying to install PyAudio on my Conda environment. I am using Miniconda on Macbook M1.
Is there any way to solve this, or if not how am I supposed to build the package and place it in my python site-packages??
Kindly Help.

I solved the issue by removing an unwanted urllib3 folder without METADATA inside my python site-packages folder. And then switched the terminal to run on Rosetta2 and It worked.

Unable To Install PyAudio On A Mac Even With HomeBrew Installed

I am on a macOS system and I am not able to install PyAudio On a Mac even with using the portaudio and homebrew technique . What should I do ? Please Help🙏

PyAudio is a python package, so you need to install it with pip. Try running pip install pyaudio or pip3 install pyaudio depending on which version of python you are using.

How do I install opencv using pip?

I need to install cv2 for a script that has been written for me. I tried pip install cv2 and pip install open_cv and got the same problem - a warning message from dist.py and complains about zlib being not found. No cv2 installed. I also tried pyopenvc and pip install opencv-python.
So, I went to the opencv site and downloaded the relevant exe. Ran it - generated a heap of subdirectories and a make file and stuff.
What do I do now?

Install opencv-python (which is an unofficial pre-built OpenCV package for Python) by issuing the following command:
pip install opencv-python

run the following command by creating a virtual enviroment using python 3 and run
pip3 install opencv-python
to check it has installed correctly run
python3 -c "import cv2"

In pip package management, there are 4 different OpenCV packages all using the same namespace, cv2. Although they are not officially supported by OpenCV.org, they are commonly used in developers' community. You could install any of them using the following command:
pip install PACKAGE_NAME
where PACKAGE_NAME can be
opencv-python (only contains main modules)
opencv-contrib-python (contains both main and contrib modules)
opencv-python-headless (same as opencv-python but without GUI functionality)
opencv-contrib-python-headless (same as opencv-contrib-python but without GUI functionality)
You should only install one of them depending on your needs. If you accidentally installed multiple of them in the same environment, you can remove them using pip uninstall before installing the correct one again.
For more details, you can refer to the project description of OpenCV on Wheels.
As of 2021, all of these 4 packages are official OpenCV projects. Source: OpenCV Website.

To Install the Current Latest version of OpenCV then use the below commands:
Use this Command:
pip install --upgrade opencv-python
If you're facing problem in above command then try this :
pip install --upgrade opencv-contrib-python
To check the version of installed OpenCV:
import cv2
print(cv2.__version__)

Simply use this for the so far latest version 4.1.0.
pip install opencv-contrib-python==4.1.0.25
For the default version use this:
pip install opencv-contrib-python
If you have a new Raspberry Pi and want to install OpenCV then this tutorial would be a good choice.
For Ubuntu/Linux users:
sudo apt install python3-opencv

As of 10/22/2019, I think the best answer is simply
conda install opencv
It appears opencv is now in the main Anaconda channel.
To see which packages (including opencv) are in the main Anaconda channel go to Anaconda Package Lists and follow the link corresponding to your python version and os version.

Everybody struggles initially while installing OpenCV. OpenCV requires a lot of dependencies in the backend. The best way to start with OpenCV is, install it in a virtual environment. I suggest that you use the Python Anaconda distribution and create a virtual environment using it. Then inside the virtual environment, you can install OpenCV using this command:
conda install -c conda-forge opencv

Please follow the command:
pip install opencv-python
then if you want to use:
import cv2
If it's not worked due to any update, please follow the documentation

Make a virtual enviroment using python3
virtualenv env_name --python="python3"
and run the following command
pip3 install opencv-python
to check it has installed correctly run
python3 -c "import cv2"

To install open_cv you can go to this website or do this,
pip install opencv-contrib-python --upgrade
pip install opencv-python
You can test it by:
C:\> python
>>> import cv2
>>> print(cv2.__version__)
'4.5.1' # your version may be a newer one

You can install opencv the normal way:
pip install opencv-python
If you are getting errors, you can do this:
pip install opencv-python-headless

Open anaconda command prompt and type in below command.
conda install -c conda-forge opencv
Once the 'Solving environment' is done. It will ask to download dependencies. Type 'y'.
It will install all the dependencies and then you are ready to code.

I recommend this for Python 3: Please install it this way with pip
pip3 install opencv-python
This will download and install the latest version of OpenCV.

You could try using below command-
pip install opencv-contrib-python
It will basically download the compatible version. If this command fails, you could upgrade you pip using below command-
python -m pip install –upgrade pip
If you need a pictorial guide, head over to Simple Steps to Install OpenCV in Windows
You can also try installing OpenCV from prebuilt binaries from the official OpenCV site.

->pip install opencv-python you can use this.
But if this code does not working then you can check python version on cmd and anaconda because they are different. So you type command in anaconda prompt and cmd, it will work. You can check this -> pip list

Open terminal
Run the following command
pip install --trusted-host=pypi.org --trusted-host=files.pythonhosted.org opencv-python.
Hope it will work.

Installing cv2 or opencv-python using pip is sometimes a problem. I was having the same problem of installing cv2 with pip. The installation wasn't a problem the problem was to import cv2 after installation. I was getting an Import Error so to fix this i import main from pip to install opencv-python. Try to run the following code in your python file then opencv-python will be installed
from pip._internal import main as install
try:
import cv2
except ImportError as e:
install(["install", "opencv-python"])
finally:
pass
I hope this will help someone

As a reference it might help someone... On Debian system I hard to do the following:
apt-get install -y libsm6 libxext6 libxrender-dev
pip3 install opencv-python
python3 -c "import cv2"

On Ubuntu you can install it for the system Python with
sudo apt install python3-opencv

if you are using Pycharm navigate settings > Project:name > Project interpreter just search the module by name(in this case OpenCV-python) and install it. worked for me

In case you use aarch64 platform with ARM64 cpu - and/or docker
On a development board on ARM64, no python-opencv version were found at all
version: NONE.
I've had to build from source. This allowed to include CUDA support.
In my case it was already available on the board but it wasn't found on the development environment.
If compiling from source is out of reach, there are Dockers
Of course compiling will take some time (few hours on ARM core), but it is worthy process to know as most open source tools can be built this way in case of issues.

I've had this problem in Google Colab, It only worked with this specific package version.
!pip install "opencv-python-headless<4.3"

There are two options-
pip install cv2
or
pip install opencv-python
Hope it helps.

Pycharm/Python OpenCV and CV2 install error

I've been trying to install both OpenCV and cv2 from both Pycharm and from the terminal as suggested using:
pip install --user opencv
pip install --user cv2
but I'm getting the following error for them:
Collecting opencv
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement opencv (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for opencv
and
Collecting cv2
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement cv2 (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for cv2
How can I fix these and install the packages properly? I'm using python 3.4.

You are getting those errors because opencv and cv2 are not the python package names.
These are both included as part of the opencv-python package available to install from pip.
If you are using python 2 you can install with pip:
pip install opencv-python
Or use the equivilent for python 3:
pip3 install opencv-python
After running the appropriate pip command your package should be available to use from python.

This the correct command that you need to install opencv
pip install opencv-python
if you get any error when you are trying to install the "opencv-python" package in pycharm, make sure that you have added your python path to 'System Variables' section of Environment variables in Windows.
And also check whether you have configured a valid interpreter for your project

I ran into the same problem. One issue might be OpenCV is created for Python 2.7, not 3 (not all python 2.7 libraries will work in python 3 or greater). I also don't believe you can download OpenCV directly through PyCharm's package installer. I have found luck following the instructions: OpenCV Python. Specifically:
Downloading and installing OpenCV from SourceForge
Copying the cv2.pyd file from the download (opencv\build\python\2.7\x64) into Python's site-packages folder (something like: C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages)
In PyCharm, open the python Console (Tools>Python Console) and type:import cv2, and assuming no errors print cv2.__version__
Alternatively, I have had luck using this package opencv-python, which you can straightforwardly install using pip with pip install opencv-python
Good luck!

python3.6 -m pip install opencv-python
will install cv2 in python3.6 branch

On Windows:
!pip install opencv-python

Try this. I am using Jupyter notebook (OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on Google Cloud Platform + on Windows). Executed following command in the Jupyter notebook to install opencv:
!pip install opencv-contrib-python #working on both Windows and Ubuntu
After successful installation you will get following message:
Successfully installed opencv-contrib-python-4.1.0.25
Now restart the kernel and try to import opencv as:
import cv2
The same command can be used to installed opencv on Windows as well.
SOLUTION 2: try following commands to install opencv:
For Ubuntu:
Run following command from terminal:
sudo apt-get install libsm6 libxrender1 libfontconfig1
Restart Jupyter notebook kernel and execute following command:
!pip install opencv-contrib-python
NOTE: You can run all the above commands from the terminal as well without using '!'.

Keep it simple and just run.
pip install opencv-python
This is the simplest way of installing opencv.
If you still face issue, create a virtual environment and try installing opencv.

I rather use Virtualenv to install such packages rather than the entire system, saves time and effort rather than building from source.
I use virtualenvwrapper
Windows user can download
pip install virtualenvwrapper-win
https://pypi.org/project/virtualenvwrapper-win/
Linux follow
pip install opencv-python
opencv-python
If processing a video is required
pip install opencv-contrib-python
opencv-contrib-python
If you do not need GUI in Opencv
pip install opencv-contrib-python-headless
opencv-contrib-python-headless

here is a tutorial that worked for me without any problem.
Copied from the site above the important part:
Download the OpenCV version corresponding to your Python installation
from here. In my case, I’ve used
opencv_python-3.1.0-cp35-cp35m-win32.whl.
Now, open a cmd window like before. You can open this directly in your
Downloads folder if you SHIFT and right click inside it. The idea is
to open a cmd window where you’ve downloaded the above [...] file. Use
the [...] command to install [...] OpenCV:
1 pip install "opencv_python-3.1.0-cp35-cp35m-win32.whl"
Additional note: don't forget to change the name of the downloaded file in the command you use.
Apparently by installing opencv, you'll have access to cv2 too.

Installing opencv is not that direct.
You need to pre-install some packages first.
I would not recommend the unofficial package opencv-python. Does not work properly in macos and ubuntu (see this post). No idea about windows.
There are many webs explaining how to install opencv and all required packages.
For example this one.
The problem of trying to install opencv several times is that you need to uninstall completely before attempting again, or you might end having many errors.

you must install opencv-python
pip/pip3 install opencv-python
if you try import opencv-python, receive error.
Fix this error, use the import cv2

How about try some different mirrors?
If you are in China, I highly recommend you try:
sudo pip install --index https://pypi.mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/simple/ opencv-contrib-python
If not, just replace the url address to some other mirrors you like!
Good luck.

this will help you
pip3 install opencv-python
this is the snippet of successful installation

First step:
pip uninstall numpy
pip uninstall opencv-python
Second step:
pip install numpy
pip install opencv-python

I had the same problem. Here are the steps for Windows 10 users.
Open CMD: win+r then type cmd. Now,
Type pip install virtualenv
Create a Virtual Environment, Type virtualenv testopencv
Get Inside testopencv, Type cd testopencv
Activate the Virtual Environment, Type .\Scripts\activate
Now Install Opencv, Type pip install opencv-contrib-python --upgrade
Let's test Opencv, Type Python then import cv2 hit enter then type print(cv2.__version__) to check if its installed
Now, open a new cmd, win + r then type cmd, repeat step 6. If it gives you an error.
Go inside the testopencv folder, inside lib. Copy everything, go to your python directory, inside lib folder paste it and skip that are already present.
Again open a new cmd, repeat Step 6.
Hope it helps.

In win, download the py based latest numpy and Opencv from Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages and pip install its source in cmd. Later copy site-package folder from main py lib to venv lib.

In jetso nano this work for me.
$ git clone https://github.com/JetsonHacksNano/buildOpenCV
$ cd buildOpenCV

When I was facing this issue I used to install OpenCV in pycharm installed package panel where we can find under the settings tab. Search "OpenCV-python" and install it in the installed package panel of right interpreter.

First run from cmd
pip --version
to make sure that you have the updated version installed.
Then run
pip install opencv-python

Go through with this link: https://learnopencv.com/install-opencv-4-on-raspberry-pi/
you can install OpenCV perfectly with out any error. but the problem was it will take lot of time to install.
I had used pi3 model B+ with 32GB class10 SD card for me it took more than 12 hours for complete installation.

If you still find any error to install open-cv in your mac, try this:
opencv-python==4.2.0.34
This worked for me.