Failed building wheel for spacy

for me, pip install --no-cache-dir spacy worked

I installed these packages, then it works:

sudo apt-get install python-dev 
sudo apt-get install python3-dev 
sudo apt-get install libevent-dev

This worked for me:

# Note, use sudo. I'm in a docker image, so i dont need it.

# install dev libs
apt-get install python-dev -y && \
apt-get install python3-dev -y && \
apt-get install libevent-dev -y && \

# install new gcc
apt-get update && \
apt-get install build-essential software-properties-common -y && \
add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test -y && \
apt-get update && \
apt-get install gcc-snapshot -y && \
apt-get update && \
apt-get install gcc-6 g++-6 -y && \
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-6 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-6 && \
apt-get install gcc-4.8 g++-4.8 -y && \
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.8 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.8;

see https://gist.github.com/application2000/73fd6f4bf1be6600a2cf9f56315a2d91

A couple thoughts:

• Grab the various wheel files you need from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#spacy and install with pip install x.whl y.whl etc.
• Upgrade your version of cpp build tools to 2017 and try pip again