Can't install from PyPl

[profPlum]

Python version: 3.7.6
Pip version: 20.0.2
System: Linux, uname -v output --> #53~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 15 11:32:10 UTC 2021
(this is either a debian or ubuntu system... probably ubuntu)

pip install python-augeas gives me this error:

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /home/dwyerdeighan/anaconda3/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-o0jh7i56/python-augeas/setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-o0jh7i56/python-augeas/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 /tmp/pip-install-o0jh7i56/python-augeas/pip-egg-info
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-o0jh7i56/python-augeas/
Complete output (31 lines):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/tmp/pip-install-o0jh7i56/python-augeas/setup.py", line 43, in
test_suite="test.test_augeas",
File "/home/dwyerdeighan/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/init.py", line 144, in setup
return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
File "/home/dwyerdeighan/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/distutils/core.py", line 108, in setup
_setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
File "/home/dwyerdeighan/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 448, in init
k: v for k, v in attrs.items()
File "/home/dwyerdeighan/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/distutils/dist.py", line 292, in init
self.finalize_options()
File "/home/dwyerdeighan/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 740, in finalize_options
ep.load()(self)
File "/home/dwyerdeighan/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 747, in _finalize_setup_keywords
ep.load()(self, ep.name, value)
File "/home/dwyerdeighan/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cffi/setuptools_ext.py", line 217, in cffi_modules
add_cffi_module(dist, cffi_module)
File "/home/dwyerdeighan/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cffi/setuptools_ext.py", line 49, in add_cffi_module
execfile(build_file_name, mod_vars)
File "/home/dwyerdeighan/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cffi/setuptools_ext.py", line 25, in execfile
exec(code, glob, glob)
File "augeas/ffi.py", line 47, in
lib = ffi.dlopen("augeas")
File "/home/dwyerdeighan/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cffi/api.py", line 150, in dlopen
lib, function_cache = _make_ffi_library(self, name, flags)
File "/home/dwyerdeighan/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cffi/api.py", line 832, in _make_ffi_library
backendlib = _load_backend_lib(backend, libname, flags)
File "/home/dwyerdeighan/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cffi/api.py", line 827, in _load_backend_lib
raise OSError(msg)
OSError: ctypes.util.find_library() did not manage to locate a library called 'augeas'
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

[thedrow]

You need to have the augeas library installed in order to compile this library.