How to install python-devel when using virtualenv

Question

Before asking my question, let me introduce my computing environment first.

• OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.5.
• Python: Python 2.6 (by rpm install), Python 2.7 (based on virtualenv)

Question:

I want to install a library that requires python-devel. However, when using

    yum install python-devel

The system installs python-devel-2.6.*, because the installed (yum-packaged) python is version 2.6. My question is , how to install python-devel that matches the version of the python in virtualenv (which is version 2.7 in my case).

Thanks!

Answer 1

This question has nothing to do with pip or virtualenv. python-dev is a Linux system package, not something you install with pip. You just need to explicitly install python-devel-2.7 - you can search your distribution's package repository for the exact package name.