ImportError: Unable to find zbar shared library

[SmithPeng]

after pip install pyzbar, I've test it in python3.4 and python3.6

import pyzbar
from pyzbar.pyzbar import decode
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyzbar/pyzbar.py", line 7, in
from .wrapper import (
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyzbar/wrapper.py", line 148, in
c_uint_p, # minor
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyzbar/wrapper.py", line 141, in zbar_function
return prototype((fname, load_libzbar()))
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyzbar/wrapper.py", line 120, in load_libzbar
libzbar, dependencies = zbar_library.load()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyzbar/zbar_library.py", line 65, in load
raise ImportError('Unable to find zbar shared library')
ImportError: Unable to find zbar shared library

what's the problem?!

[SmithPeng]

I've found the problem
before install pyzbar, zbar should be installed, because pyzbar ' No dependencies, other than the zbar library itself '.

yum install zbar

is OK

[3Mcolab]

Still error exists no zbar found while installing in AWS:
yum install zbar
Loaded plugins: extras_suggestions, langpacks, priorities, update-motd
amzn2-core | 2.4 kB 00:00:00
amzn2extra-docker | 1.3 kB 00:00:00
amzn2extra-nginx1.12 | 1.3 kB 00:00:00
(1/3): amzn2-core/2/x86_64/group_gz | 2.4 kB 00:00:00
(2/3): amzn2-core/2/x86_64/updateinfo | 56 kB 00:00:00
(3/3): amzn2-core/2/x86_64/primary_db | 23 MB 00:00:00
No package zbar available.
Error: Nothing to do

[quicklizard99]

Will track AWS behaviour at #40

[navneetsn18]

https://pypi.org/project/pyzbar/ This document worked for me. Hope this helps..

[SandeepKumarRudhravaram7215]

can anyone please tell me what is the solution for mac m1? for me the below error is getting.

raise ImportError('Unable to find zbar shared library')
ImportError: Unable to find zbar shared library

These are thing i installed.

Mac OS X:

brew install zbar

Install this Python wrapper; use the second form to install dependencies of the command-line scripts:

pip install pyzbar

[marrtinol]

@SandeepKumarRudhravaram7215

This worked for me. Try for yourself.

$ mkdir ~/lib
$ ln -s $(brew --prefix zbar)/lib/libzbar.dylib ~/lib/libzbar.dylib

From npinchot/zbar#3 (comment)

[akellehe]

@CarlKing5019 thanks, this works for me! Very strange that pyzbar would look in ~/lib instead of oh, i dunno, $(brew --prefix zbar)/lib... hopefully the developers will patch this soon.

[Vadym-Kononenko-SWI]

@CarlKing5019 thanks! It works for me too!

[AliLmassoudi]

@CarlKing5019 Thanks man ,it works

[smanikantam]

@CarlKing5019 thanks! it worked. even chatGPT could't solved that 😂.

[tadaissee]

Solution :

1 : !sudo apt-get install libzbar0

2: !pip install pyzbar

3: !pip install pyzbar[scripts]

it works 100%

[HarikrishnanK9]

@tadaissee Thank You.Worked for me