Can't Install Python-Dev on Centos 6.5

How to install python27-devel on Centos 6.5

Thanks for your feedback. First of all, if you try to run yum install python27-devel, then you should get the message like this:

No package python27-devel available

Then I followed this link,

yum search python | grep -i devel

This will show you that you have python-devel.x86_64 package available if your OS is a 64 bit OS. If I am correct, then the following command should work fine as shown in the accepted answer:

yum  install python-devel.x86_64

How to install python developer package?

yum install python-devel will work.

If yum doesn't work then use

apt-get install python-dev

How to install python3-devel on red hat 7

Search for the package in yum , use the following command:

yum search python3 | grep devel

It will list all the available devel packages. The result will be somewhat like this

python3-cairo-devel.x86_64 : Libraries and headers for python3-cairo
python3-devel.x86_64 : Libraries and header files needed for Python 3
                     : development
python34-devel.x86_64 : Libraries and header files needed for Python 3
                      : development

Then you can choose the package you want to install from the list , suppose if you want to to install python3-devel , execute the following

yum install -y python3-devel.x86_64

How to install python2.6-devel package under CentOs 5

I have the same issue and this wonderful link solved it for me...

http://blog.milford.io/2010/08/new-method-for-installing-python-2-6-4-with-mysql-python-on-centos-5-5/

I followed some of the steps out of order because I was a little antsy and got some interesting error messages. I couldn't get mysqldb to build, but then I ran yum to install the packages i was supposed to be building and voila, mysqldb now builds and installs.

Let me know if it still doesn't work afterwards.

python-dev installation error: ImportError: No module named apt_pkg

Make sure you have a working python-apt package. You could try and remove and install that package again to fix the problem with apt_pkg.so not being located.

apt-get install python-apt