Installing lxml module in python

Question

while running a python script, I got this error

  from lxml import etree ImportError: No module named lxml 

now I tried to install lxml

sudo easy_install lmxl 

but it gives me the following error

Building lxml version 2.3.beta1. NOTE: Trying to build without Cython, pre-generated 'src/lxml/lxml.etree.c' needs to be available. ERROR: /bin/sh: xslt-config: not found  ** make sure the development packages of libxml2 and libxslt are installed ** 

Using build configuration of libxslt

src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:4: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 

Answer 1

Just do:

sudo apt-get install python-lxml 

For Python 2 (e.g., required by Inkscape):

sudo apt-get install python2-lxml 

If you are planning to install from source, then albertov's answer will help. But unless there is a reason, don't, just install it from the repository.

Answer 2

I solved it upgrading the lxml version with:

pip install --upgrade lxml