can't build pycario on google colab

[FrankHui]

Hi, I run pip3 install jupyter_manim, everything is installed successfully but below

Building wheels for collected packages: pycairo
Building wheel for pycairo (PEP 517) ... error
ERROR: Failed building wheel for pycairo
Running setup.py clean for pycairo
Failed to build pycairo
ERROR: Could not build wheels for pycairo which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly

I've checked travis.yml, which I guess what "pip3 install jupyter_manim" follow. Google colab provide linux vm so I think it shouldn't install pycario?

Anyway, Should I run command line by line like this

[krassowski]

This looks like Google Colab user support query - sorry it looks I cannot help with this one!

[pwichmann]

Just add this to colab before you pip install pycairo:

# Required for pycairo
!sudo apt install libcairo2-dev pkg-config python3-dev

I know I am a year late but maybe someone else googles this problem.

[sugatoray]

There is another resource on the same. It basically references the previous comment and states that the said solution works.

🔥 I have personally tried this on colab, and can confirm that it works.

• https://nickwan.github.io/pycairo-and-colab/

# Required for pycairo
! sudo apt install libcairo2-dev pkg-config python3-dev
! pip install pycairo

cc: @pwichmann Thank you. 🚀