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 gre…

Accepted Answer

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

First update the packages with `sudo apt update`.

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
```

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

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