Couldn't Install Textract In Google Colab

I couldn't install textract in google colab, error message showing as below. some people suggest to use sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev but how to do sudo... in google colab?

Solution 1:

Nope you can't use sudo because you don't get root access for colab.

The problem is that you don't just need libasound2-dev but a whole host of packages. Check debian requirements in https://textract.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html

Also in order to build sphinx (a requirement for textract) you need libpulse-dev. So here is the updated command list.

!apt-get install python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev antiword unrtf poppler-utils \
     pstotext tesseract-ocr \
     flac ffmpeg lame libmad0 libsox-fmt-mp3 sox libjpeg-dev swig libasound2-dev libpulse-dev
!pip install git+https://github.com/deanmalmgren/textract

Solution 2:

In google colab Bash commands run by prefixing the command with ‘!’.

Example:

!apt update!apt-get install libasound2-dev