Install mujoco and report an error: distutils.errors DistutilsExecError: command ‘gcc‘ failed with exit status 1

1、 distutils.errors.DistutilsExecError: command ‘gcc‘ failed with exit status 1

If you report an error at the beginning gcc If you have any questions , Try the official solution ：

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because mojoco_py Has been compiled and needs to link to the provided mujoco Native code of binary file , So it's in linux The installation on may be more than pure python Source package is more challenging .

To be in ubuntu Installation on mujoco-py, Please ensure that the following libraries are installed ：

sudo apt install libosmesa6-dev libgl1-mesa-glx libglfw3

If the above libraries are installed , But it still shows that it can't be found -1GL Error of , You may need to create symbolic links directly ：

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so

2、FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘patchelf’: ‘patchelf’

Normal word ,import mujoco_py I won't report it gcc Wrong. …… It is , Report another error

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘patchelf’: ‘patchelf’
install patchelf You can solve it

$ sudo apt-get update -y
$ sudo apt-get install -y patchelf

3、 ERROR: GLEW initalization error: Missing GL version’ & Missing path to your environment variable.

Run using mujoco_py When the code , If there is a call to the visualization window env.render(), The following errors may be reported

Creating window glfw
ERROR: GLEW initalization error: Missing GL version

The solution is :
Install first package

$ sudo apt-get install libglew-dev

（ There may be dependencies that cannot be installed, etc , Install manually as above ）
And then in ~/.bashrc Add the following path to the file

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLEW.so

And then at the terminal

$ source ~/.bashrc

such , You can run the relevant program code at the terminal .

But if pycharm in , You may still report an error , It does not recognize the path to call , Including installed mujoco_210 The path to is also unrecognized to call , Will report a mistake

Missing path to your environment variable.
Current values LD_LIBRARY_PATH=
Please add following line to .bashrc:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/dreamer/.mujoco/mujoco210/bin

You need to add the path manually , stay pycharm in ,

Run ——> Edit Configurations ——> Environment variables

then , Add a path ：

Name: LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Value: $LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/（ user name ）/.mujoco/mujoco200/bin
Name: LD_PRELOAD
Value: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLEW.so