pkg-config is a dependency?
kuraga opened this issue · comments
$ ~/miniconda3/bin/pip install git+https://github.com/izderadicka/pdfparser Collecting git+https://github.com/izderadicka/pdfparser
Cloning https://github.com/izderadicka/pdfparser to /tmp/pip-req-build-6ryx319w
Running command git clone -q https://github.com/izderadicka/pdfparser /tmp/pip-req-build-6ryx319w
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /home/a.kurakin/miniconda3/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-req-build-6ryx319w/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-req-build-6ryx319w/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'
"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base pip-egg-info
cwd: /tmp/pip-req-build-6ryx319w/
Complete output (15 lines):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-req-build-6ryx319w/setup.py", line 88, in <module>
poppler_config = pkgconfig("poppler", "poppler-cpp")
File "/tmp/pip-req-build-6ryx319w/setup.py", line 62, in pkgconfig
items = subprocess.check_output(['pkg-config', optional_args, pkg_option, package]).decode('utf8').split()
File "/home/a.kurakin/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 395, in check_output
**kwargs).stdout
File "/home/a.kurakin/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 472, in run
with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
File "/home/a.kurakin/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 775, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "/home/a.kurakin/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 1522, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'pkg-config': 'pkg-config'
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
This solved the problem (but wasn't found in documentation):
sudo apt install -y pkg-config
It is, but optional - depending how you link libpoppler - if you link to system wide library then pkg-config is used. Not exactly sure when it installs, but it's usually included if you install development dependencies.
I guess we can mention it in README? Can you submit PR?
No, sorry, I don't know internals. Feel free to close.
Check this fork which works both on Linux and Mac: https://github.com/rossumai/pdfparser (+ installation instructions and brew formulas/deb packages for poppler).
Anyway pdfparser uses a deprecated internal API (xpdf & cairo) for poppler and there's a better alternative which uses the CPP API and is much faster for both image rendering and text extraction: https://pypi.org/project/python-poppler/