Installing MuJoCo on CentOS - distutils.errors.CompileError: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

[ruhanaazam]

Hi, I am trying to get MuJoCo running on a CentOS cluster. I get a compilation error due to missing OpenGL packages. I'm assuming the issue has to do with these packages missing: libosmesa6-dev, libgl1-mesa-glx, libglfw3. Although, CentOS does not support these packages. Does anyone know a way to get Mujoco working on CentOS?

To Reproduce
I have followed the instructions for the setup: downloaded the binaries, placed them in "~/.mujoco/mujoco210", and installed mujoco-py via pip. Then, run import mujoco_py.

Error Messages

/home/$USER/mujoco-py/mujoco_py/gl/osmesashim.c:1:23: fatal error: GL/osmesa.h: No such file or directory
 #include <GL/osmesa.h>

...

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
  File "/home/$USER/miniconda3/envs/phiTrain/lib/python3.7/distutils/unixccompiler.py", line 120, in _compile
    raise CompileError(msg)
distutils.errors.CompileError: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Desktop

• OS: CentOS 7.9.2009
• Python Version 3.7.11
• Mujoco Version 2.1
• mujoco-py version 2.1.2.14

Environment

• output of: echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/local/cuda/lib64::/home/$USER/.mujoco/mujoco210/bin
• output of: echo $HOME : /home/$USER

[dyllanwli]

Got the same issues on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Python 3.8.3, Mujoco Version 2.1 and mujoco-py version 2.1.2.14

[whliu90]

Hello, there! I got the same issues on CentOS 7. I tried this：

conda install -c menpo osmesa
C_INCLUDE_PATH=:$HOME/.conda/envs/<env-name>/include python -c "import mujoco_py"

, then I got an error like "No such file or directory: 'patchelf'". According to #652, I installed
sudo yum install patchelf
,and re-installed mujoco-py with python setup.py install . After that, everything goes right magically.