Installing pylibmc on Ubuntu

Question

When running

pip install pylibmc

on Ubuntu, I get the following error:

_pylibmcmodule.h:42:36: fatal error: libmemcached/memcached.h: No such file or directory

Zags · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-09T20:54:32.073

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sudo apt-get install libmemcached-dev zlib1g-dev

edited Nov 09 '16 at 20:54

answered Dec 05 '13 at 00:00

Zags

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The package for CentOS 5 is **libmemcached-devel**. – Matthew Apr 24 '15 at 16:38

ThatAintWorking · Answer 2 · 2014-11-04T17:50:12.517

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Zags answer didn't do the trick for me on Ubuntu 13.10. libmemcached-dev had already been installed. I had to also do:

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

Maybe that will help someone else.

edited Nov 04 '14 at 17:50

answered Apr 02 '14 at 13:47

ThatAintWorking

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 25 '17 at 16:04

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Install libmemcached using below command

sudo apt-get install libmemcached-dev zlib1g-dev

Then set the environment variable and install

LIBMEMCACHED=/opt/local pip install pylibmc

answered Aug 25 '17 at 16:04

Anand Tripathi

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