Installation Troubleshooting

This page provides guidance on how to troubleshoot common issues that may arise when installing the Execution Spec Tests repository.

Pip Installation Issues

Coincurve Installation

If you encounter an error when installing the coincurve package like the following:

Stored in directory: /tmp/...
  Building wheel for coincurve (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Building wheel for coincurve (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [27 lines of output]
      ...
        571 | #include <secp256k1_extrakeys.h>
            |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      compilation terminated.
      error: command '/usr/bin/gcc' failed with exit code 1
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for coincurve

You may need to install the libsecp256k1 library. On Ubuntu, you can install this library by running the following command:

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install libsecp256k1-dev