How to install python developer package?

Solution 1:

yum install python-devel will work.

If yum doesn't work then use

apt-get install python-dev

Solution 2:

If you use yum search you can find the python dev package for your version of python.

For me I was using python 3.5. I ran the following

yum search python | grep devel

Which returned the following

I was then able to install the correct package for my version of python with the following cmd.

sudo yum install python35u-devel.x86_64

This works on centos for ubuntu or debian you would need to use apt-get

Solution 3:

For me none of the packages mentioned above did help.

I finally managed to install lxml after running:

sudo apt-get install python3.5-dev