Learning is an Art » python.h http://www.singhvishwajeet.com My experiences Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:56:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Solving the build error Python.h: No such file or directory on Ubuntu http://www.singhvishwajeet.com/2009/09/16/solving-the-build-error-python-h-no-such-file-or-directory-on-ubuntu/ http://www.singhvishwajeet.com/2009/09/16/solving-the-build-error-python-h-no-such-file-or-directory-on-ubuntu/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:45:05 +0000 Vishwajeet Singh http://www.singhvishwajeet.com/?p=172 I was struggling due to this problem for two days now and got the solution just now so thought I will share it
with you all; as I don’t want anyone else to land up in trouble as i did so I am using Hardy and was trying to build subvertpy from source as the package was not available for same.

The problem occurs due to absence of Python development headers as many python modules have dependency on  Python development headers to compile.

Solution is to install development headers using package manager; open the terminal and issue the following commands

sudo apt-cache search python

and select the package that matches your installation as in my case it is python2.5-dev; issue the following command to install it

sudo apt-get install python2.5-dev

This will install development headers in /usr/include/python2.5 and now you can build your python module successfully.

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