setup script exited with error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

Question

When I try to install odoo-server, I got the following error:

error: Setup script exited with error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1 

Could anyone help me to solve this issue?

Answer 1

I encountered the same problem in college having installed Linux Mint for the main project of my final year, the third solution below worked for me.

When encountering this error please note before the error it may say you are missing a package or header file — you should find those and install them and verify if it works (e.g. ssl → libssl).

For Python 2.x use:

sudo apt-get install python-dev 

For Python 2.7 use:

sudo apt-get install libffi-dev 

For Python 3.x use:

sudo apt-get install python3-dev 

or for a specific version of Python 3, replace x with the minor version in

sudo apt-get install python3.x-dev