Alex Kleider schrieb am 09.04.2015 um 21:49: > On 2015-04-09 09:11, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> All you need to do is install the "-dev" package that goes with your Python >> installation, e.g. "python3-dev" should match Python 3.4 in current Ubuntu >> releases. >> >> The reason why it's in a separate package is that many people actually >> don't need this, e.g. when they only install plain Python packages or use >> the Ubuntu provided binary packages that they can install via apt (e.g. >> "sudo apt-get install python-lxml"). > > Thanks Brandon and Sefan. It proved correct that I did not have > python3-dev installed > .. but after intalling it, the pip install lxml still fails! > > There's a huge amount of output but what follows might provide clues as to > the current problem: > [...] > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
Same thing, you need to make zlib available to the build. Ubuntu calls the package "zlib1g-dev". And while you're at it, make sure you also have "libxml2-dev" and "libxslt-dev". The official installation instructions can be found here, BTW: http://lxml.de/installation.html Stefan _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor