Python pyautogui

[lijingeorge]

I was trying to install pyautogui in python 3.6.3. Currently my OS is ubuntu 17.10. This is the difficulty i am facing. Can anybody help me
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Xlib/xauth.py", line 43, in __init__
raw = open(filename, 'rb').read()
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/root/.Xauthority'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-xxtb56qs/pyautogui/setup.py", line 6, in <module>
version=__import__('pyautogui').__version__,
File "/tmp/pip-build-xxtb56qs/pyautogui/pyautogui/__init__.py", line 115, in <module>
from . import _pyautogui_x11 as platformModule
File "/tmp/pip-build-xxtb56qs/pyautogui/pyautogui/_pyautogui_x11.py", line 160, in <module>
_display = Display(os.environ['DISPLAY'])
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Xlib/display.py", line 80, in __init__
self.display = _BaseDisplay(display)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Xlib/display.py", line 62, in __init__
display.Display.__init__(*(self, ) + args, **keys)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Xlib/protocol/display.py", line 61, in __init__
name, host, displayno)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Xlib/support/connect.py", line 91, in get_auth
return mod.get_auth(sock, dname, host, dno)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Xlib/support/unix_connect.py", line 103, in new_get_auth
au = xauth.Xauthority()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/Xlib/xauth.py", line 45, in __init__
raise error.XauthError('~/.Xauthority: %s' % err)
Xlib.error.XauthError: ~/.Xauthority: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/root/.Xauthority'

----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-xxtb56qs/pyautogui/


Kindly help me with this

[lijingeorge]

Solved
I have to do the following to solve it

xhost +
touch ~/.Xauthority
pip install pyautogui

Then installation was successful

[wildmanne39]

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