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I'm trying to install pyopenssl v 0.13.1 on my kali linux distro.

when I do:

sudo pip install pyopenssl==0.13.1

Downloading/unpacking pyopenssl==0.13.1
  Downloading pyOpenSSL-0.13.1.tar.gz (254kB): 254kB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_root/pyopenssl/setup.py) egg_info for package pyopenssl

....

it returns this error:

----------------------------------------
  Rolling back uninstall of pyOpenSSL
Cleaning up...
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_root/pyopenssl/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-EElRHo-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_root/pyopenssl
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/pip", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 185, in main
    return command.main(cmd_args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 161, in main
    text = '\n'.join(complete_log)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 35: ordinal not in range(128)

What can i try now?

thanks!

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  • what does `locale ` output from bash? – Padraic Cunningham May 29 '14 at 10:47
  • root@kali:/# locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= – rvandoni May 29 '14 at 10:48
  • do you get the same error using pyopenssl==0.14 – Padraic Cunningham May 29 '14 at 10:53
  • no, a different one: http://pastebin.com/P5aBpNz1 – rvandoni May 29 '14 at 10:57
  • I need it for an external program. I tried to install 0.12, 0.10, 0.9, 0.8 but with no success, btw. – rvandoni May 29 '14 at 11:02
  • not sure if it is important but what version of openssl do you have – Padraic Cunningham May 29 '14 at 11:39
  • why your `LC_ALL=` and `LANGUAGE=` is not set? – Burhan Khalid May 29 '14 at 11:41
  • root@kali:~# openssl version OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013 – rvandoni May 29 '14 at 12:02
  • I set LC_ALL and LANGUAGE too: root@kali:~# locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 – rvandoni May 29 '14 at 12:03

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I experienced almost identical errors while trying to install the leveldb package, and the numpy package--this doesn't just seem to be a problem with pyOpenSSL.

I was able to fix it by installing the python-devel package on Fedora 20. According to the answer to this question, the python headers are necessary to install packages using the pip tool (at least this seems to be the case for many packages).

Since Kali seems to be a Debian-based distro, the name of the package you'll want is python-dev.

Let me know if this works.

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  • thanks a lot for your answers, right now I haven't my distro up and running, I will try ASAP! – rvandoni Sep 09 '14 at 08:13
  • I can confirm that adding `python-devel` helps when installing `numpy`. On Ubuntu it would be `python-dev` package – aherok Sep 16 '14 at 12:15