Error installing python-snappy: snappy-c.h: No such file or directory

I am using amazon ec2 ubuntu 11.04 server

 sudo pip install python-snappy 

also I tried to downloaded package and entered "sudo python setup.py install"

I got the error:

  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'snappy' extension
  gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c snappymodule.cc -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/snappymodule.o
  cc1plus: warning: command line option ‘-Wstrict-prototypes’ is valid for Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++ [enabled by default]
  snappymodule.cc:31:22: fatal error: snappy-c.h: No such file or directory
  compilation terminated.
  error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

How i could get rid of this error?

source: https://github.com/andrix/python-snappy

Solution 1:

You can install Snappy C library with following commands:

DEB-based: sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev

RPM-based: sudo yum install libsnappy-devel

Brew: brew install snappy

Solution 2:

According to the repo

How to install it on Mac OS X?

It has been reported a few times (Issue #7 and #23) that it can't be installed correctly the library in Mac. The procedure should be,

$ brew install snappy # snappy library from Google 
$ CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib" pip install python-snappy