Failed building wheel for psutil

Question

I am trying to install psutil in centos and same is failing with gcc error . I have referred various posts in this forum but none of them helped . Many threads suggested to use pydev but its already there in my system

#sudo /opt/airwave/bin/pip install psutil
   gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -DPSUTIL_POSIX=1 -DPSUTIL_VERSION=543 -DPSUTIL_LINUX=1 -I/opt/airwave/include/python2.7 -c psutil/_psutil_common.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/psutil/_psutil_common.o
    psutil/_psutil_common.c:9:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory
    psutil/_psutil_common.c:25: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
    psutil/_psutil_common.c:31: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
    psutil/_psutil_common.c:42: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
    psutil/_psutil_common.c:57: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
    psutil/_psutil_common.c:73: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
    psutil/_psutil_common.c: In function 'psutil_debug':
    psutil/_psutil_common.c:87: warning: implicit declaration of function 'va_start'
    psutil/_psutil_common.c:91: warning: implicit declaration of function 'va_end'
    psutil/_psutil_common.c: In function 'psutil_setup':
    psutil/_psutil_common.c:100: warning: implicit declaration of function 'getenv'
    psutil/_psutil_common.c:100: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
    psutil/_psutil_common.c:102: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
    error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

gcc is available

[root@localhost /]# yum install gcc
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Package gcc-4.4.7-18.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
[root@localhost /]#

python-devel is also in place

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Package python-devel-2.6.6-66.el6_8.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

Python version is 2.7.4

[root@localhost /]# python
Python 2.7.4 (default, Apr 17 2013, 09:54:46)
[GCC 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

Python.h file is available

[root@localhost /]# find / -name Python.h
/usr/include/python2.6/Python.h
[root@localhost /]#

There are two instances of python available (default version 2.6 and user installed 2.7)

[root@localhost jvm]# /usr/bin/python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Aug 18 2016, 15:13:37)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

[root@localhost jvm]# /opt/airwave/bin/python
Python 2.7.4 (default, Apr 17 2013, 09:54:46)
[GCC 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

So when I try yum install python-devel , its installing python dev package for python2.6 but I want yum to install python-devel for python 2.7 Check and let me know if you need any information

Answer 1

I wanted a solution for python 3.6 and the below solution worked for me.

sudo apt-get install python3.6-dev