pip failed install or build uezerbug (dependency needed for ranger show picture)

   
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to build the uezerbug installation python-wheel is needed in this scenario. I’m trying to update wheel and it’s still useless. Searching on the internet about this case

    ...

      Xshm/Xshm.c:7:10: fatal error: X11/extensions/XShm.h: No existe el fichero o el directorio
     #include <X11/extensions/XShm.h>
              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    compilation terminated.
    error: command 'i686-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

    ...

and a quick googled search of the error pip message _#include anycodingspip revealed pip that you’re missing the package, libxext-dev.

So, just

sudo apt install libext-dev

and try again

pip install ueberzug
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting ueberzug
  Using cached ueberzug-18.1.9.tar.gz (36 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Requirement already satisfied: python-xlib in /home/ok/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from ueberzug) (0.31)
Requirement already satisfied: pillow in /home/ok/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from ueberzug) (9.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: docopt in /home/ok/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from ueberzug) (0.6.2)
Requirement already satisfied: attrs>=18.2.0 in /home/ok/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from ueberzug) (22.1.0)
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.10.0 in /home/ok/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages (from python-xlib->ueberzug) (1.16.0)
Building wheels for collected packages: ueberzug
  Building wheel for ueberzug (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for ueberzug: filename=ueberzug-18.1.9-cp311-cp311-linux_x86_64.whl size=52662 sha256=7f8a3bfba56afef1ee69d929e8debf491b568fc70d03362a0652250bd5560396
  Stored in directory: /home/ok/.cache/pip/wheels/49/32/5b/7039502703367727fe407fe132757a9db8d4cd7e1ae5891215
Successfully built ueberzug
Installing collected packages: ueberzug
  WARNING: The script ueberzug is installed in '/home/ok/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed ueberzug-18.1.9

ok great.

Let’s update ranger configuration on ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf

set preview_images true
set preview_images_method  ueberzug

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