Error when installing via pip install secp256k1 #1643

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   dragonked2 commented at 11:35 am on December 4, 2024: none

   Error when installing via pip install secp256k1 Collecting secp256k1 Downloading secp256k1-0.14.0.tar.gz (2.4 MB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2.4/2.4 MB 3.8 MB/s eta 0:00:00 Preparing metadata (setup.py) … error error: subprocess-exited-with-error

   × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> [1 lines of output] ‘pkg-config’ is required to install this package. Please see the README for details. [end of output]

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

   × Encountered error while generating package metadata. ╰─> See above for output.

   note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip. hint: See above for details.

   its been for years im facing this issue any solution ?

2. 
   real-or-random commented at 11:54 am on December 4, 2024: contributor

   This is the repository for the C library libsecp256k1. The python package secp256k1, which provides bindings for the C library, can be found at https://github.com/rustyrussell/secp256k1-py.
3. real-or-random closed this on Dec 4, 2024

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