cannot Install libxml2 in virtualenv

Question

I have got an issue with libxml2 python module.

I'm trying to install it on a python3 virtualenv using the following command:

pip install libxml2-python3

but it shows the following error:

Collecting libxml2-python3   Using cached
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/41/97/a2ecf6c5b291799dbd40b3d041d89b0ecdb1b43c8c2503e27991325851cd/libxml2-python3-2.9.5.tar.gz
     Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
     failed to find headers for libxml2: update includes_dir

     ---------------------------------------- 
 Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in
 /tmp/pip-install-72u9ke0y/libxml2-python3/

I tried the solutions provided in the following links but nothing works for me :

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-python/issues/3884

"pip install unroll": "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1

How to install libxml2 in virtualenv?

i work on fedora 27 os

Answer 1

If I'm not mistaken, you would need the libxml2 development files. Try running

yum install libxml2-devel

then run the pip install again