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Lucio
Asked: 2013-03-14 17:54:42 +0800 CST

Where is the python library installed?

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When I try to do ./configure over AWN v0.4 I get this error:

configure: error: in `/home/desktop/Software/avant-window-navigator-0.4.0':
configure: error: 
  Could not link test program to Python. Maybe the main Python library has been
  installed in some non-standard library path. If so, pass it to configure,
  via the LDFLAGS environment variable.
  Example: ./configure LDFLAGS="-L/usr/non-standard-path/python/lib"
  ============================================================================
   ERROR!
   You probably have to install the development version of the Python package
   for your distribution.  The exact name of this package varies among them.

So maybe I can solve this adding the path of the python library to the command. But I don't know where is it.

See the full output here

python

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This message is not asking for the python libraries themselves, it's asking for the headers to link against them. You can install then with:

    sudo apt-get install python-dev

    You are probably lacking some other dependencies.

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  2. You should be able to find it in the following locations

    /usr/lib/
    /usr/local/lib/

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  3. I found myself in the same situation with VAMOS Automotive Simulator. The Python version was hardcoded in the configure file, so I had to install that version instead, in my case:

    apt-get install python3.4-dev
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