KeyError: 'DISPLAY' when installing pyautogui

When I tried to install pyautogui with sudo pip3 install pyautogui I get the error info

pi@raspberrypi:~/Desktop/test/c_test $ sudo pip3 install pyautogui Downloading/unpacking pyautogui Downloading PyAutoGUI-0.9.36.tar.gz (46kB): 46kB downloaded Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip-build-tbxln81q/pyautogui/setup.py) egg_info for package pyautogui Traceback (most recent call last): File “<string>”, line 17, in <module> File “/tmp/pip-build-tbxln81q/pyautogui/setup.py”, line 6, in <module> version=import(‘pyautogui’).version, File “/tmp/pip-build-tbxln81q/pyautogui/pyautogui/init.py”, line 115, in <module> from . import _pyautogui_x11 as platformModule File “/tmp/pip-build-tbxln81q/pyautogui/pyautogui/_pyautogui_x11.py”, line 160, in <module> _display = Display(os.environ[‘DISPLAY’]) File “/usr/lib/python3.4/os.py”, line 633, in getitem raise KeyError(key) from None KeyError: ‘DISPLAY’ Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: Traceback (most recent call last):

File “<string>”, line 17, in <module>

File “/tmp/pip-build-tbxln81q/pyautogui/setup.py”, line 6, in <module>

version=__import__('pyautogui').__version__,

File “/tmp/pip-build-tbxln81q/pyautogui/pyautogui/init.py”, line 115, in <module>

from . import _pyautogui_x11 as platformModule

File “/tmp/pip-build-tbxln81q/pyautogui/pyautogui/_pyautogui_x11.py”, line 160, in <module>

_display = Display(os.environ['DISPLAY'])

File “/usr/lib/python3.4/os.py”, line 633, in getitem

raise KeyError(key) from None

KeyError: ‘DISPLAY’

Cleaning up… Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-tbxln81q/pyautogui Storing debug log for failure in /root/.pip/pip.log

I followed the install steps listed in the Docs(http://pyautogui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html). Do anyone know why this happens and how to fix it? Thank you so much.

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curkychencommented, Jun 7, 2017

Have solved it. It is because of using ssh to install the package. When I install it by using the raspberrypi directly it solved.

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JeedHome44commented, Jan 16, 2022

Hello,

I do a mouse-reset.py like this for my magic mirror:

#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import pyautogui
import time

while True:
    try:
        if pyautogui.position != (1918, 1078):
            time.sleep(0.1)
            pyautogui.moveTo(1918, 1078)
            time.sleep(0.1)
        time.sleep(0.1)
    except:
        time.sleep(0.1)

it’s work correctly when the mirror boot. but i need to pkill python when i want to power off the screen.

my problem: i can’t laucnh this in SSH: python3 /home/pi/programmes/mouse-reset.py

i have error display.

pyautogui test the client but not serveur display.

What i have to do to do this python program in SSH?

i test add it in a mouse.sh and do: bash /home/pi/scripts/mouse.sh but same problem: Error Display.

Please, i need help to activate this python program with SSH when i do bash /home/pi/scripts/ecran_on.sh

i want this program execute in ssh serveur, not in ssh client.

thank you for your help.

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