backports/lzma/_lzmamodule.c:115:18: fatal error: lzma.h: No such file or directory

Question

I'm trying to install docker-registry. I got stuck after this:

$ apt-get install python-pip python-dev
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
[...]
backports/lzma/_lzmamodule.c:115:18: fatal error: lzma.h: No such file or directory

The docker-registry I downloaded is v0.6.7

Answer 1

$ apt-get install -y liblzma-dev

Answer 2

On Centos the package is

yum install -y xz-devel

Answer 3

For OSX with Homebrew.

brew install xz

The formula is xz which because lzma formula is deprecated, since it became a part of xz.