Cannot install eth-brownie with pipx

Question

I have an MacBook Air M2 with python version 3.11.2 I am getting this error message when I follow the pipx instructions to install brownie I tried using pip to install each of these packages individually and I still get the error

Fatal error from pip prevented installation. Full pip output in file:
    /Users/katejohnson/.local/pipx/logs/cmd_2023-04-06_17.36.43_pip_errors.log

pip failed to build packages:
    bitarray
    cytoolz
    yarl

Some possibly relevant errors from pip install:
    cytoolz/dicttoolz.c:209:12: fatal error: 'longintrepr.h' file not found
    yarl/_quoting_c.c:196:12: fatal error: 'longintrepr.h' file not found

Error installing eth-brownie.

Answer 1

Some packages might not yet have compatible pre-built binaries if you are using M1 Mac and Python 3.11.2.

Here what you can do, first if you havent install Xcode from the App store then go to a terminal and run xcode-select --install

then we install Homebrew and Python 3.9 ( some packages might not yet support Python 3.11.2 )

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
brew install [email protected]

then we update our PATH accordingly export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/bin:$PATH"

then we restart our shell source ~/.zshrc or source ~/.bashrc then

python3.9 -m pip install --user pipx
python3.9 -m pipx ensurepath 

and finaly: pipx install eth-brownie

to do that in a virtual env and so keep your version of python do that:

install our env package python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv then we create our virtual env python3 -m virtualenv --python=/usr/local/bin/python3.9 myenv then we activate it ( you have to do it when you want to use eth-brownie, then we install it inside our virtualenv with source myenv/bin/activate then python -m pip install eth-brownie