I recently installed lxml
.
Before that, I had to install all the dependencies for that.
So I tried to install liblxml2-dev
, liblxslt1-dev
and python-dev
(google-searched for what packages are required for lxml
)
but even after that, I could not able to install lxml
by using the command
pip install lxml
.
However as because I am using Python 3.4.0, I thought that may be there are different version of python-dev
(thought came due to facing some similar version conflict problem). So I tried to install python3-dev
.
Then I tried to install lxml
using the same command said earlier and that worked!!!
I google-searched for those sentences
and I could able to understand the meaning of lxml
and xslt
. I found a link for python-dev
but I am not still sure what it is actually doing.
OS - Ubuntu
python-dev
contains the header files you need to build Python extensions.
lxml
is a Python C-API extension that is compiled when you do pip install lxml
. The lxml sources have at least something like #include <Python.h>
in the code. The compiler looks for the header file Python.h
during compilation, hence those header files need to be on your system such that they can be found.
-dev
packages on LinuxOn Linux typically, the binary libraries and header files of packages like Python are separate. Hence you can have Python (e.g. package python
) installed and everything works fine. But when you want to build extensions you need to install the corresponding -dev
package.
python-dev
is the package that contains the header files for the Python C API, which is used by lxml
because it includes Python C extensions for high performance.
python-dev contains everything needed to compile python extension modules (https://docs.python.org/2/extending/extending.html).
Note that Debian already has an lxml package for python 3 (mentioned at http://lxml.de/installation.html); in general it's a good idea to use the packaged version. I'd suggest pip uninstall lxml
and then apt-get install python3-lxml
.
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