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To install confluent-kafka-2.0.2 library, I downloaded the confluent-kafka-2.0.2.tar.gz package into "project_data/data_asset" directory and use following customization setting to create custom runtime environment template.
channels:
-defaults
#dependencies:
# Remove the # on the following lines and replace sample package name with your package name.
- pip install confluent_kafka == 2.0.2
However, when I use that template to create a new notebook, following error occurred:

I also tried to install confluent-kafka-2.0.2 by using following pip command in the notebook cell:
!pip install -find-links=/project_data/data_asset confluent-kafka-2.0.2.tar.gz
And I got following error:
Looking in links: ind-links=/project_data/data_asset
Processing ./confluent-kafka-2.0.2.tar.gz
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: confluent-kafka
Building wheel for confluent-kafka (setup.py) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
...
gcc -pthread -B /opt/conda/envs/Python-3.9/compiler_compat -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -O2 -Wall -fPIC -O2 -isystem /opt/conda/envs/Python-3.9/include -I/opt/conda/envs/Python-3.9/include -fPIC -O2 -isystem /opt/conda/envs/Python-3.9/include -fPIC -I/opt/conda/envs/Python-3.9/include/python3.9 -c /tmp/1000680000/pip-req-build-b94qoct1/src/confluent_kafka/src/Admin.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-39/tmp/1000680000/pip-req-build-b94qoct1/src/confluent_kafka/src/Admin.o
In file included from /tmp/1000680000/pip-req-build-b94qoct1/src/confluent_kafka/src/Admin.c:17:
/tmp/1000680000/pip-req-build-b94qoct1/src/confluent_kafka/src/confluent_kafka.h:23:10: fatal error: librdkafka/rdkafka.h: No such file or directory
#include <librdkafka/rdkafka.h>
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
error: command '/usr/bin/gcc' failed with exit code 1
[end of output]
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: legacy-install-failure
× Encountered error while trying to install package.
╰─> confluent-kafka
note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for output from the failure.
Let me know how to create custom runtime environment with confluent-kafka-2.0.2 installed on air-gap environment?
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Document number:
6959541
Modified date:
01 March 2023
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