Not sure if this is helpful, but under the latest copy of Raspbian I was able to install RPi.GPIO directly from the main repositories using apt-get as follows:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install python-rpi.gpio

If you're running Python 3 (idle3 on the command line) instead of Python 2 (python on the command line) you need to install the RPi.GPIO library with this command instead:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-rpi.gpio
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I simply googled "opwnrt install rpi.gpio". First link was your forum post. Second link is this with what seems to be a complete "guide" on how to install it if you read all the comments from pilovis: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/pip-install-rpio-rpi-gpio-error/37090 More on reddit.com
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import RPi.GPIO as GPIO # to use Raspberry Pi board pin numbers GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) # set up the GPIO channels - one input and one output GPIO.setup(11, GPIO.IN) GPIO.setup(12, GPIO.OUT) # input from pin 11 input_value = GPIO.input(11) # output to pin 12 GPIO.output(12, GPIO.HIGH) # the ...
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December 13, 2023 - I tried executing the following commands in a .py file: from mfrc522 import SimpleMFRC522 import PRi.GPIO as GPIO I initially got an error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mfrc522' but I quickly resolved in by running %pip install mfrc522 As expected when I ran the code again I got: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'RPi'.
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GPIO Python Guide
July 6, 2024 - Alternatively you can install the software with these commands: ... Update: The new Raspberry Pi 5 uses a different chipset for GPIO functionality which means existing GPIO libraries need to be updated to be compatible with the Pi 5. It turns out python3-RPi.GPIO isn't compatible with the Pi 5 but there's a drop-in replacement called rpi-lgpio and it's compatible with all Raspberry Pi versions.
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First you should look for the file vcvarsall.bat in your system.

If it does not exits I recommend you to install Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7. This will create the vcvarsall.bat in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0" if you install it for all users.

The problem now is that a function find_vcvarsall(version) in the C:/Python27/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py module is the one looking for vcvarsall.bat.

If you follow the function calls you will see is looking in the registry for the directory of the vcvarsall.bat file and it won't never find it because the function is looking in other directories different from where the above mentioned installation placed it, and in my case the registry didn't exits.

The easiest way to solve this problem is to remove the body (or just place in the first line) of the function find_vcvarsall(version) in the msvc9compiler.py file with the absolute path to vcvarsall.bat. For example:

def find_vcvarsall(version):
return r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0\vcvarsall.bat"

If you already have the vcvarsall.bat file you should check if you have the key productdir in the registry:

(HKEY_USERS, HKEY_CURRENT_USERS, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT)\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\version\Setup\VC

If you don't have the key just do:

def find_vcvarsall(version):
    return <path>\vcvarsall.bat

To understand the exact behavior check msvc9compiler.py module starting in the find_vcvarsall(version) function.

This worked for me. for more visit this post pip install gives error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

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July 3, 2019 - wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/R/RPi.GPIO/RPi.GPIO-0.5.3a.tar.gz ... 3. Change to the newly created directory, again remember to change the version number to that of the version you downloaded.
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Hello people of reddit!

I'm building a travel router with OpenWRT on a spare Pi 3B+ and I want to add an SSD1306 based oled display plus a shutdown button but both of them require the RPi.GPIO library.

I've installed all of the Python dependencies but I keep getting this error when I try to install the RPi.GPIO Python library. Here is a link to my post on the openwrt forums that shows the error.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

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When updates are finished running, it’s time to install the GPIO module for Python 3: ... The appropriate packages should download and install. When done, verify that you can import the module using Python 3: $ python3 Python 3.5.3 (default, Jan 19 2017, 14:11:04) [GCC 6.3.0 20170124] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import RPi.GPIO >>>
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March 26, 2018 - Then I installed pip and attempted sudo pip install rpi.gpio - this time it fails with a different error: osmc@osmc:~$ sudo pip install rpi.gpio Collecting rpi.gpio Using cached RPi.GPIO-0.6.3.tar.gz Complete output from command pyth...
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