error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 while installing eventlet

Question

I wanted to install eventlet on my system in order to have "Herd" for software deployment.. but the terminal is showing a gcc error:

  root@agrover-OptiPlex-780:~# easy_install -U eventlet
  Searching for eventlet
  Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/eventlet/
  Reading http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Eventlet
  Reading http://eventlet.net
   Best match: eventlet 0.9.16
    Processing eventlet-0.9.16-py2.7.egg
    eventlet 0.9.16 is already the active version in easy-install.pth

   Using /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet-0.9.16-py2.7.egg
 Processing dependencies for eventlet
 Searching for greenlet>=0.3
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/greenlet/
Reading https://github.com/python-greenlet/greenlet
Reading http://bitbucket.org/ambroff/greenlet
Best match: greenlet 0.3.4
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/g/greenlet/greenlet-   0.3.4.zip#md5=530a69acebbb0d66eb5abd83523d8272
Processing greenlet-0.3.4.zip
Writing /tmp/easy_install-_aeHYm/greenlet-0.3.4/setup.cfg
Running greenlet-0.3.4/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-_aeHYm/greenlet-0.3.4/egg-dist-tmp-t9_gbW
In file included from greenlet.c:5:0:
greenlet.h:8:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1`

Why can't Python.h be found?

Answer 1

Your install is failing because you don't have the python development headers installed.

First update the packages with sudo apt update.

You can do this through apt on ubuntu/debian with:

sudo apt-get install python-dev 

for python3 use:

sudo apt-get install python3-dev

For eventlet you might also need the libevent libraries installed so if you get an error talking about that you can install libevent with:

sudo apt-get install libevent-dev

Answer 2

For Fedora:

sudo yum install python-devel

sudo yum install libevent-devel

and finally:

sudo easy_install gevent

Answer 3

What worked for me on CentOS was:

sudo yum -y install gcc
sudo yum install python-devel

Answer 4

For Redhat Versions(Centos 7) Use the below command to install Python Development Package

Python 2.7

sudo yum install python-dev
or
sudo yum install python-devel

Python 3.4

sudo yum install python34-devel

Python 3.6

sudo yum install python36-devel

If the issue is still not resolved then try installing the below packages -

sudo yum install python-devel

sudo yum install openssl-devel

sudo yum install libffi-devel

Answer 5

On MacOS I had trouble installing fbprophet which requires pystan which requires gcc to compile. I would consistently get the same error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

I think I fixed the problem for myself thus:

I used brew install gcc to install the newest version, which ended up being gcc-8

Then I made sure that when gcc ran it would use gcc-8 instead.

It either worked because I added alias gcc='gcc-8 in my .zshrc (same as .bashrc but for zsh), or because I ran export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH (see comment)

Also: all my attempts were inside a virtual environment and I only succeeded by installing fbprophet globally (with pip), but still no success inside a venv

Answer 6

If it is still not working, you can try this

sudo apt-get install build-essential

in my case, it solved the problem.

Answer 7

This is an old post but I just run to the same problem on AWS EC2 installing regex. This working perfectly for me

sudo yum -y install gcc

and next

sudo yum -y install gcc-c++

Answer 8

try this :

sudo apt-get install libblas-dev libatlas-base-dev

I had a similar issue on Ubuntu 14.04. For me the following Ubuntu packages

Answer 9

On MacOS I also had problems trying to install fbprophet which had gcc as one of its dependencies.

After trying several steps as recommended by @Boris the command below from the Facebook Prophet project page worked for me in the end.

conda install -c conda-forge fbprophet

It installed all the needed dependencies for fbprophet. Make sure you have anaconda installed.

Answer 10

This page is gonna save your life, for all further lib issues that are forthcoming,

For Alpine(>=3.6), use

apk --update --upgrade add gcc musl-dev jpeg-dev zlib-dev libffi-dev cairo-dev pango-dev gdk-pixbuf-dev

Answer 11

For CentOS 7.2：

LSB Version:    :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: CentOS
Description:    CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core) 
Release:    7.2.1511
Codename:   Core

Install eventlet:

sudo yum install python-devel
sudo easy_install -ZU eventlet

Terminal info：

[root@localhost ~]# easy_install -ZU eventlet
Searching for eventlet
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/eventlet/
Best match: eventlet 0.19.0
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/5a/e8/ac80f330a80c18113df0f4f872fb741974ad2179f8c2a5e3e45f40214cef/eventlet-0.19.0.tar.gz#md5=fde857181347d5b7b921541367a99204
Processing eventlet-0.19.0.tar.gz
Running eventlet-0.19.0/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-Hh9GQY/eventlet-0.19.0/egg-dist-tmp-rBFoAx
Adding eventlet 0.19.0 to easy-install.pth file

Installed /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eventlet-0.19.0-py2.6.egg
Processing dependencies for eventlet
Finished processing dependencies for eventlet

Answer 12

For openSUSE 42.1 Leap Linux use this

sudo zypper install python3-devel

Answer 13

I am using MacOS catalina 10.15.4. None of the posted solutions worked for me. What worked for me is:

 >> xcode-select --install
xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates

>> env LDFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" pip install psycopg2==2.8.4
Collecting psycopg2==2.8.4
  Using cached psycopg2-2.8.4.tar.gz (377 kB)
Installing collected packages: psycopg2
  Attempting uninstall: psycopg2
    Found existing installation: psycopg2 2.7.7
    Uninstalling psycopg2-2.7.7:
      Successfully uninstalled psycopg2-2.7.7
    Running setup.py install for psycopg2 ... done
Successfully installed psycopg2-2.8.4

use pip3 for python3

Answer 14

sudo apt install gcc

It works for PyCharm on Ubuntu 20.10.

Answer 15

if you are on Mac as myself, try this in your terminal: xcode-select --install

Then accept the installation request, and it works afterwards as described in this issue

Answer 16

Build from source and install, this is fixed in the latest release (10.3+):

mkdir -p /tmp/install/netifaces/
cd /tmp/install/netifaces && wget -O "netifaces-0.10.4.tar.gz" "https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/n/netifaces/netifaces-0.10.4.tar.gz#md5=36da76e2cfadd24cc7510c2c0012eb1e"
tar xvzf netifaces-0.10.4.tar.gz
cd netifaces-0.10.4 && python setup.py install

Answer 17

Similarly I fixed it like this (notice python34):

sudo yum install python34-devel

Answer 18

If you are migrating to a more modern version of python3 e.g. python3.5 to python3.8 You may want to check/upgrade the versions of the library that are failing if you have already installed the recommended libraries to handle gcc building python3-dev + other libraries as suggested.

It depends on the package. Some versions of the packages may not be supported on later versions of python3.

Answer 19

On a macOS, if the message

xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun
...

is part of the error log, installing the developer tools could solve this issue.

The following terminal command can run the developer tools software installation:

$ xcode-select --install

I encountered a similar issue while installing greenlet, and the above resolved it.