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installing matplotlib on gcp vm

I tried to install matplotlib ( third party lib) on gcp vm and failed.
gcp vm python documantation says use pip install -t lib/ <library_name> but actually, what they really mean: i.g. use pip install matplotlib -t lib/ <library_name> And it didn't work
I tried:
sudo pip install matplotlib -t env/gcplib
result:
"**Failed building wheel for subprocess32**"
"Command "/usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools,
tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-Rpkv8i/subprocess32/setup.py
';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __fi
le__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-x4Y1E4/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --co
mpile" **failed with error code 1** in /tmp/pip-install-Rpkv8i/subprocess32/"
I will very appreciate any help

Before attempting to install matplotlib, you need to install python-dev. You didn't mention what OS your VM was, but if it's Ubuntu, you would do that with:
sudo apt-get install python-dev

pip install mysql-connector-python installation error

I'm getting an error after installing MySQL Connector for Python 2.7.9 in Linux OS.
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools,
tokenize;file='/tmp/pip-build-5nxFZ_/mysql-connector-python-rf/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize,
'open', open)(file).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), file,
'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-qLvsiw-record/install-record.txt
--single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-5nxFZ_/mysql-connector-python-rf
Storing debug log for failure in /home/pi/.pip/pip.log
Searched a lot about this error couldn't find a satisfactory solution, please help me to sort out this error.
Thank you. :)

use
pip install mysqlclient
as Mysql-Python and all are not supported now. install mysql in linux and install the connector to connect to local mysql

try this ,
pip install MySQL-python==1.2.5 # version specified
or
pip install MySQL-python

if you already installed required systems for python 2.7. Next, You should run this command:
sudo apt-get install python2.7-mysqldb

Cannot download and install scikit-learn

I am pretty new to python. I want to use KMean code, and I want to install scikit-learn or sklearn.
I used this code to attempt install these packages:
pip install -U sklearn
pip install -U scikit-learn
But I got this error:
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_reihaneh/sklearn/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-89YQB7-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_reihaneh/sklearn
Storing debug log for failure in /home/reihaneh/.pip/pip.log
What is the cause of the problem?

pip install -U <package>, short for pip install --upgrade <package>, will upgrade <package> to the most recent stable version in the pip repo.
pip install <package> will install the most recent stable version of <package> in the pip repo.
The difference is upgrading vs. installing. You want the latter.
scikit-learn requires scipy and numpy, so here are the commands you should issue:
pip install numpy
pip install scipy
pip install scikit-learn
If you already have any of the dependencies, just plug in a -U between pip install and the package name.
If you're using Python 3.x, replace pip with pip3.

"failed with error code 1" while installing scipy

I have Python 2.7.9 on windows 7 64-bits. I'm trying to install scipy using pip. I used pip install scipy but I get the following error :
Command "C:\Python27\python.exe -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='c:\\us
ers\\admin\\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-build-xpl5cw\\scipy\\setup.py';exec(compil
e(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file
__, 'exec'))" install --record c:\users\admin\appdata\local\temp\pip-b68pfc-reco
rd\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with
error code 1 in c:\users\admin\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-xpl5cw\scipy
I searched on google and stackoverflow for solutions but nothing worked. I tried upgrading pip and it didn't work too.
Here are my installed packages and their versions :
httplib2 (0.9.1)
nltk (3.0.3)
nose (1.3.7)
numpy (1.9.2)
pip (7.0.3)
pytz (2015.4)
scikit-learn (0.16.1)
setuptools (17.1.1)
six (1.9.0)
twilio (4.4.0)
wheel (0.24.0)

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04. I tried installing through pip which kept on failing with error code 1 or took forever to finish (never finished actually!).
However, the following command worked without a hitch:
sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib ipython ipython-notebook python-pandas python-sympy python-nose
Reference: http://www.scipy.org/install.html

On Windows, you'll need to use the unofficial precompiled binaries:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
Select the version matching your architecture and Python version.

Installing setuptools made it work for me (Mac OS)
pip install -U pip setuptools

I also had the same error when installing scipy.
Then I downloaded and installed MiniConda. And then I used the below command to install pytables.
conda install -c conda-forge scipy
Please refer the below screenshot.

On windows you can check below command:
python -m pip install psycopg2

Error installing pip package on debian / python 3.4

I have python 3.4 compiled from sources on my debian 7.8.
I have already installed some Python packages using pip and virtualenv (django, pillow etc), but i have an error installing python-phonenumbers (https://github.com/daviddrysdale/python-phonenumbers).
I tried it using virtualenv and without, running pip3 install phonenumbers and manually downloading archive and running python3 setup.py install. Every time I get same error:
Command "/usr/local/bin/python3.4 -c "import setuptools, tokenize;
__file__='/tmp/pip-build-ogsbxm_d/phonenumbers/setup.py';
exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__)
.read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))"
install --record /tmp/pip-98gunm55-record/install-record.txt
--single-version-externally-managed --compile"
failed with error code -9 in /tmp/pip-build-ogsbxm_d/phonenumbers
I tried it on my windows and ubuntu 14.04 - everything ok. How can i fix it?

For Ubuntu 14.04, from Docker image python:3.4.3-slim this combination worked for me:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
sudo apt-get install -y python3.4-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libpq-dev
pip3 install psycopg2
Note build-essential package. It was crucial in my case. Maybe it will help you too.