lgpio Python Wheels

Pre-built Python wheels for the lgpio library on aarch64 (ARM64) Linux, targeting Raspberry Pi 5 and other 64-bit ARM single-board computers.

Why?

The upstream lgpio package on PyPI only provides a source distribution that requires swig, python3-dev, and the liblgpio C library to build. This makes pip install lgpio fail on most systems without those build dependencies.

These wheels are statically linked and self-contained — no system libraries or build tools needed.

Available Wheels

Wheel	Python	Architecture	Platform
lgpio-0.2.2.0-cp313-cp313-linux_aarch64.whl	3.13	aarch64	Linux ARM64
lgpio-0.2.2.0-cp314-cp314-linux_aarch64.whl	3.14	aarch64	Linux ARM64

Installation

Using --find-links (recommended)

pip install lgpio --find-links https://github.com/adafruit/lgpio-python-wheels/raw/main/wheels/

Direct URL install

# Python 3.13
pip install https://github.com/adafruit/lgpio-python-wheels/raw/main/wheels/lgpio-0.2.2.0-cp313-cp313-linux_aarch64.whl

# Python 3.14
pip install https://github.com/adafruit/lgpio-python-wheels/raw/main/wheels/lgpio-0.2.2.0-cp314-cp314-linux_aarch64.whl

Alternative: apt (Raspberry Pi OS only)

On Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm/Trixie), lgpio is available as a system package:

sudo apt-get install -y python3-lgpio

Building Wheels

These wheels were built on a Raspberry Pi 5 running Raspberry Pi OS Trixie (Debian 13) with the PYPI=1 flag for static linking:

# Install build dependencies
sudo apt-get install -y swig python3-dev

# Download lgpio source
pip download --no-binary :all: --no-deps lgpio==0.2.2.0
tar xzf lgpio-0.2.2.0.tar.gz
cd lgpio-0.2.2.0

# Build statically linked wheel
PYPI=1 pip wheel . --no-deps --no-build-isolation -w wheels/

Related

• lgpio homepage
• Adafruit Blinka — CircuitPython API for SBCs
• Adafruit Blinka issue #1016 — lgpio install errors on Pi 5

License

The lgpio library is released under the Unlicense. The wheel packaging in this repository is provided under the MIT License.