Pyinstaller: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'objcopy': 'objcopy'

[eduardoHoefel]

I was able to successfully build my package on Windows and another Linux machine.
Now, I was trying to build it from a Linux VM and got this message:

sudo pyinstaller -y src/main.py
30 INFO: PyInstaller: 3.5.dev0+ea8e55dec
30 INFO: Python: 3.7.0
31 INFO: Platform: Linux-4.14.67-1-MANJARO-x86_64-with-arch-Manjaro-Linux
33 INFO: wrote /media/sf_workspace/JAEL/main.spec
35 INFO: UPX is not available.
39 INFO: Extending PYTHONPATH with paths
['/media/sf_workspace/JAEL/src', '/media/sf_workspace/JAEL']
39 INFO: checking Analysis
112 INFO: checking PYZ
138 INFO: checking PKG
144 INFO: Building because /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyInstaller/loader/pyimod01_os_path.pyc changed
144 INFO: Building PKG (CArchive) PKG-00.pkg
218 INFO: Building PKG (CArchive) PKG-00.pkg completed successfully.
221 INFO: Bootloader /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyInstaller/bootloader/Linux-64bit/run
221 INFO: checking EXE
229 INFO: Building because name changed
229 INFO: Building EXE from EXE-00.toc
248 INFO: Appending archive to ELF section in EXE /media/sf_workspace/JAEL/build/main/main
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pyinstaller", line 11, in
load_entry_point('PyInstaller==3.5.dev0+ea8e55dec', 'console_scripts', 'pyinstaller')()
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyInstaller/__main__.py", line 111, in run
run_build(pyi_config, spec_file, *vars(args))
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyInstaller/__main__.py", line 63, in run_build
PyInstaller.building.build_main.main(pyi_config, spec_file, *kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyInstaller/building/build_main.py", line 838, in main
build(specfile, kw.get('distpath'), kw.get('workpath'), kw.get('clean_build'))
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyInstaller/building/build_main.py", line 784, in build
exec(text, spec_namespace)
File "", line 29, in
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyInstaller/building/api.py", line 433, in __init__
self.__postinit__()
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyInstaller/building/datastruct.py", line 158, in __postinit__
self.assemble()
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyInstaller/building/api.py", line 587, in assemble
self.name)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyInstaller/compat.py", line 509, in exec_command_all
stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 756, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 1499, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'objcopy': 'objcopy'

[htgoebel]

Please read the requirements section in the manual and install the required binaries provided by your Linux distribution.

[cdgriffith]

Link to requirements page: https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/requirements.html#gnu-linux

There is currently nothing on the installation or quickstart sections that mention additional Linux requirements, and this is currently top result for this issue so wanted to add easy link.