Troubleshooting python-jose installation

Introduction

The JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) technologies — JSON Web Signature (JWS), JSON Web Encryption (JWE), JSON Web Key (JWK), and JSON Web Algorithms (JWA) — collectively can be used to encrypt and/or sign content using a variety of algorithms.

Installation

$ pip install python-jose

Troubleshooting

When I tried to install python-jose on my Mac running Mac OS Sierra (MacOS 10.12.6), I was getting a RuntimeError: autoconf error.

To get around this issue, I had to run the following command.

$ xcode-select --install

This command pop up a window asking your permission to install xcode compiler. Once the compiler install went through, the pip install worked without issue.

Full details of error below:

(newpython3) srini-macbookpro:aws-auth0-auth skarlekar$ (newpython3)
srini-macbookpro:aws-auth0-auth skarlekar$ pip install python-jose The
directory ‘/Users/skarlekar/Library/Caches/pip/http’ or its parent
directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been
disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If
executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo’s -H flag. The directory
‘/Users/skarlekar/Library/Caches/pip’ or its parent directory is not
owned by the current user and caching wheels has been disabled. check
the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with
sudo, you may want sudo’s -H flag. Collecting python-jose
Downloading python_jose-1.4.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl Collecting
ecdsa<1.0 (from python-jose) Downloading
ecdsa-0.13-py2.py3-none-any.whl (86kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 92kB 3.6MB/s Collecting six<2.0 (from python-jose) Downloading
six-1.11.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl Collecting future<1.0 (from
python-jose) Downloading future-0.16.0.tar.gz (824kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 829kB 941kB/s Collecting pycrypto<2.7.0,>=2.6.0 (from python-jose) Downloading
pycrypto-2.6.1.tar.gz (446kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 450kB 1.6MB/s Installing collected packages: ecdsa, six, future, pycrypto, python-jose
Running setup.py install for future … done Running setup.py
install for pycrypto … error
Complete output from command /Users/skarlekar/anaconda/envs/newpython3/bin/python -u -c “import
setuptools,
tokenize;file=’/private/var/folders/zh/54fz82bn0tb4cgv0bdjcffqw0000gn/T/pip-build-spygzevz/pycrypto/setup.py’;f=getattr(tokenize,
‘open’, open)(file);code=f.read().replace(‘\r\n’,
‘\n’);f.close();exec(compile(code, file, ‘exec’))” install
— record /var/folders/zh/54fz82bn0tb4cgv0bdjcffqw0000gn/T/pip-y3p2qipv-record/install-record.txt
— single-version-externally-managed — compile:
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.macosx-10.7-x86_64–3.6
creating build/lib.macosx-10.7-x86_64–3.6/Crypto
copying lib/Crypto/init.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.7-x86_64–3.6/Crypto
copying lib/Crypto/pct_warnings.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.7-x86_64–3.6/Crypto
creating build/lib.macosx-10.7-x86_64–3.6/Crypto/Hash
copying lib/Crypto/Hash/init.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.7-x86_64–3.6/Crypto/Hash
copying lib/Crypto/Hash/hashalgo.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.7-x86_64–3.6/Crypto/Hash
…
… (snipped for brevity)
…
Skipping optional fixer: buffer
Skipping optional fixer: idioms
Skipping optional fixer: set_literal
Skipping optional fixer: ws_comma
running build_ext
running build_configure
checking for gcc… gcc
checking whether the C compiler works… yes
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking for suffix of executables…
checking whether we are cross compiling… configure: error: in /private/var/folders/zh/54fz82bn0tb4cgv0bdjcffqw0000gn/T/pip-build-spygzevz/pycrypto':
configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use--host'.
See `config.log' for more details
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/private/var/folders/zh/54fz82bn0tb4cgv0bdjcffqw0000gn/T/pip-build-spygzevz/pycrypto/setup.py",
line 456, in
core.setup(**kw)
File "/Users/skarlekar/anaconda/envs/newpython3/lib/python3.6/distutils/core.py",
line 148, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "/Users/skarlekar/anaconda/envs/newpython3/lib/python3.6/distutils/dist.py",
line 955, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/Users/skarlekar/anaconda/envs/newpython3/lib/python3.6/distutils/dist.py",
line 974, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/Users/skarlekar/anaconda/envs/newpython3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/install.py",
line 61, in run
return orig.install.run(self)
File "/Users/skarlekar/anaconda/envs/newpython3/lib/python3.6/distutils/command/install.py",
line 545, in run
self.run_command('build')
File "/Users/skarlekar/anaconda/envs/newpython3/lib/python3.6/distutils/cmd.py",
line 313, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/Users/skarlekar/anaconda/envs/newpython3/lib/python3.6/distutils/dist.py",
line 974, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/Users/skarlekar/anaconda/envs/newpython3/lib/python3.6/distutils/command/build.py",
line 135, in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
File "/Users/skarlekar/anaconda/envs/newpython3/lib/python3.6/distutils/cmd.py",
line 313, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/Users/skarlekar/anaconda/envs/newpython3/lib/python3.6/distutils/dist.py",
line 974, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/private/var/folders/zh/54fz82bn0tb4cgv0bdjcffqw0000gn/T/pip-build-spygzevz/pycrypto/setup.py",
line 251, in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
File "/Users/skarlekar/anaconda/envs/newpython3/lib/python3.6/distutils/cmd.py",
line 313, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/Users/skarlekar/anaconda/envs/newpython3/lib/python3.6/distutils/dist.py",
line 974, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/private/var/folders/zh/54fz82bn0tb4cgv0bdjcffqw0000gn/T/pip-build-spygzevz/pycrypto/setup.py",
line 278, in run
raise RuntimeError("autoconf error")
RuntimeError: autoconf error

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