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

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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?

score 412 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 10 '20 at 16:37

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

edited Jun 10 '20 at 16:37

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answered Jun 19 '12 at 05:15

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FWIW, you definitely need both python-dev and libevent-dev. Thanks! – Alex Whittemore May 17 '13 at 02:00
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For fedora, you can use: `sudo yum install python-devel` – JavaNoScript Sep 13 '13 at 10:44
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I suggest running `sudo apt-get update` before running these 2 commands. I was getting error with `sudo apt-get install python-dev`. – AliBZ Nov 21 '13 at 01:16
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I have the same error but have python-devel installed and system is updated with yum -y install updates.. what else could the issue be? – Gcap Jun 18 '14 at 22:30
If using Python 2.6: `sudo apt-get install python2.6-dev` – luismartingil Nov 14 '14 at 09:20
just went through this problem where python-dev didn't fix it. The problem is there was a separate one for python3, so it'd have `sudo apt-get install python3-dev` – corvid Nov 29 '14 at 00:44
to remember how to install django104 – Enrique San Martín May 06 '15 at 00:14
not aways it is possible to use root and use apt-get – Tiago Bruno Jul 31 '16 at 02:11
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yum install python3-devel – N Nem May 23 '19 at 12:18
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after hours of trying to get `spacy` on centos7, this was the final missing piece. Thanks! – Marc Maxmeister Dec 09 '20 at 03:13
yum install python-devel worked for me, thanks @Java Xu – Thobs More May 05 '22 at 16:06
I also had to install gcc > sudo apt install gcc – Ofer Rahat Jan 10 '23 at 16:34

Snehal Parmar · Answer 2 · 2018-05-04T08:30:35.637

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For Fedora:

sudo yum install python-devel

sudo yum install libevent-devel

and finally:

sudo easy_install gevent

edited May 04 '18 at 08:30

answered Dec 31 '14 at 09:44

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sudo yum install python-devel sudo yum install libevent-devel worked for me – Syed Abdul Qadeer Jan 08 '20 at 05:37

nishant · Answer 3 · 2020-03-13T18:29:25.867

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What worked for me on CentOS was:

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

edited Mar 13 '20 at 18:29

answered Jan 16 '18 at 09:23

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solved my problem too. `unable to execute 'gcc': No such file or directory error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1` – Jia Gao Aug 01 '18 at 14:30
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use `sudo yum install python34-devel` for python 3.x as the other is only for python 2.x – Hitesh Garg Jul 03 '19 at 11:37
I was looking everywhere for this. Using RHEL 7 and gcc is not included by default anymore. – yitzchak24 Dec 06 '21 at 14:29

Rahul Satal · Answer 4 · 2023-08-04T13:35:54.873

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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

edited Aug 04 '23 at 13:35

answered Jun 26 '17 at 14:59

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`No package python-dev available.` I am getting this. – nishant Sep 10 '17 at 08:59
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It should be `python-devel` in CentOS – Lane Aug 03 '23 at 01:17

Boris Yakubchik · Answer 5 · 2018-09-28T16:53:28.517

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

The most helpful answer! Exporting PATH did the trick – SevenDays Aug 24 '20 at 20:19 — SevenDays, Aug 24 '20 at 20:19

score 7 · Answer 6 · answered May 28 '19 at 06:44

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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++

answered May 28 '19 at 06:44

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score 7 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 21 '20 at 13:58

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If it is still not working, you can try this

sudo apt-get install build-essential

in my case, it solved the problem.

answered Feb 21 '20 at 13:58

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Solved my problem with the `shap` library on Ubuntu 20.04. – BloodRabz Aug 09 '20 at 13:50
this solution work with `JPype1` library on python:3.8.13-slim – AMATEUR_TOSS Jul 02 '22 at 13:51

score 5 · Answer 8 · answered Aug 19 '17 at 12:00

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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

answered Aug 19 '17 at 12:00

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score 5 · Answer 9 · answered Oct 23 '19 at 13:40

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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.

answered Oct 23 '19 at 13:40

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Thank you! This gcc is causing me so many install issues that I still have not resolved and Boris steps wouldn't work for me either but that did the trick. Thank you! – shad Mar 25 '20 at 11:17
yep, similarly in my case for `marisa-trie` it worked: `conda install -c conda-forge python-marisa-trie ` – alisa Aug 10 '20 at 19:25

score 4 · Answer 10 · edited Sep 20 '21 at 13:49

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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

edited Sep 20 '21 at 13:49

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answered Jun 30 '20 at 19:12

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Sounds like an overkill of dependencies to me and added ~200 MB - what has ``WeasyPrint` to do with that? But I have to state that this is the onlz thing that helped me with an Issue related to ansible in a jenkins container. – Cadoiz Sep 20 '21 at 13:02
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@Cadoiz enjoy :) – Aakash Verma Sep 20 '21 at 13:50

score 3 · Answer 11 · answered Aug 25 '16 at 03:55

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

When I run, it gives me the error "unable to execute 'gcc': No such file or directory" — Sarang Manjrekar, Jan 02 '17 at 11:49
@Sarang that means you haven't install gcc yet, execute:"yum -y install gcc" — Little Roys, Jan 03 '17 at 03:30

score 3 · Answer 12 · edited May 29 '17 at 04:40

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For openSUSE 42.1 Leap Linux use this

sudo zypper install python3-devel

edited May 29 '17 at 04:40

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Welcome to Stack Overflow. Note that this is as much of a comment as an answer. There are a number of comments under the main answers which describe alternatives for different Linux distros. I realize you can't make comments yet. Be cautious about adding 'answers' to well-established questions which are really 'comments'. – Jonathan Leffler May 29 '17 at 04:43

score 2 · Answer 13 · answered Jun 25 '20 at 21:32

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

score 1 · Answer 14 · edited Sep 20 '21 at 16:29

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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

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score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Mar 01 '15 at 18:45

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

score 0 · Answer 16 · answered May 11 '20 at 05:33

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Similarly I fixed it like this (notice python34):

sudo yum install python34-devel

answered May 11 '20 at 05:33

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score 0 · Answer 17 · answered Feb 15 '21 at 13:43

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sudo apt install gcc

It works for PyCharm on Ubuntu 20.10.

answered Feb 15 '21 at 13:43

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score 0 · Answer 18 · answered Sep 14 '21 at 00:15

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.

score 0 · Answer 19 · answered Apr 21 '23 at 23:36

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.

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

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