ArcGIS API for Python installation fails

arcgis-py-install-fails.md

If you receive the error shown below (or similar) when installing the arcgis package with pip, then you need to install the system component libkrb5-dev:

• Run sudo apt install libkrb5-dev
• Rerun pip install arcgis

Collecting gssapi
  Using cached gssapi-1.7.3.tar.gz (1.3 MB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [14 lines of output]
      In distributed package, building from C files...
      /bin/sh: 1: krb5-config: not found
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-install-vuoxyh7g/gssapi_2bf1b86e891d4a719a9517292f369a57/setup.py", line 128, in <module>
          link_args = shlex.split(get_output(f"{kc} --libs gssapi"))
        File "/tmp/pip-install-vuoxyh7g/gssapi_2bf1b86e891d4a719a9517292f369a57/setup.py", line 41, in get_output
          res = subprocess.check_output(*args, shell=True, **kwargs)
        File "/home/thozub/.pyenv/versions/3.9.13/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 424, in check_output
          return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
        File "/home/thozub/.pyenv/versions/3.9.13/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 528, in run
          raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
      subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'krb5-config --libs gssapi' returned non-zero exit status 127.
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

If an error occurs when youinstall krb5-config, you should do:

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt --fix-broken install
3. sudo apt install libkrb5-dev