Trying to install scrapy with pip lxml error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Tue 01 November 2011

Just tried to install scrapy with pip / easy_install, but when it comes to installing lxml it will give the following error:

gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c src/lxml/lxml.etree.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/lxml/lxml …

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How to install Setuptools to a specific python version

Mon 18 July 2011

To install easy_install for a specific python version. I just installed from source and used the python version you want to install setuptools too. I used the following steps in Ubuntu 11.04 with Python 2.5 and Python 2.7 installed. The following commands will install setuptools to python …

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