installing Reportlab (error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 )

Question

I'm trying to install ReportLab 2.4 on a 10.04.2 server with virtualenv. In the ReportLab_2_4 folder I use:

python setup.py install

and the error I get:

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Answer 1

As Skimantas said, I think you should install python-dev. sudo apt-get install python-dev and I was able to install reportlab into my home directory with command "pip install reportlab" without sudo as mentioned earlier answer. I need only root access to install python-dev.

Shortly..

I installed virtualenv

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install virtualenv
virtualenv --no-site-packages virtual01

I installed

sudo apt-get install python-dev

I activate my virtual environment just to be sure...

source  ~/virtual01/bin/activate

cd ~/virtual01/bin
pip install reportlab

And that's it.

(I just recorded what I did in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)