benoitc/couchapp — Issue #6: install instructions should include python-dev pkg as prerequisite
Author: sakoht
Created: 2011-10-14 12:56:34+00:00
State: open

I had trouble installing on a relatively bare Ubuntu machine.

Got errors like this:

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
----------------------------------------
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/root/build/Couchapp/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --single-version-externally-managed --record /tmp/pip-4a8zIw-record/install-record.txt failed with error code 1
Storing complete log in /root/.pip/pip.log

The solution was to install the python-dev package and everything worked. Others might have this problem too...

Cheers,
Scott