How to install modules for Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 10.10?

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paragbaxi picture paragbaxi · Feb 22, 2011 · Viewed 10.4k times · Source

On Ubuntu 10.10, I am unable to install lxml to python 2.7. Here are the steps I take.

sudo su -
apt-get install python2.7
apt-get install python-lxml

Note when running the install for python-lxml package, the following appeared:

INFO: using unknown version '/usr/bin/python2.7' (debian_defaults not up-to-date?)"

Importing the module in python2.6 (the version that comes standard with Ubuntu) works. However, importing the module under python2.7 does not. So how does one install Python modules to a non-default Python installation?

Answer

Andrew_1510 picture Andrew_1510 · May 19, 2012

Try to install libxml2, libxml2-dev, libxslt, libxslt-dev, python-dev. These are header files. Then try to install lxml again.

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