[BioPython] biopython 1.47 installation fails - and modified how to install instructions on wiki

[Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:

> Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio wrote:
> > gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall
> > -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.5 -c
> Bio/clistfnsmodule.c
> > -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.5/Bio/clistfnsmodule.o
> > Bio/clistfnsmodule.c:10:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory
> > ...
>
> You are probably missing the python header files - you didn't say what
> OS you are using but from the path names its some form of Unix I
> think.  Under Debian Linux you can use apt-get to install the build
> dependencies of the Biopython package, and then install the latest
> Biopython from source (specifically I think you are missing the
> equivalent of the Debian python-dev package).
>

it's true!
I was missing the python-dev package.
Now the compilation goes well.

Thanks!


>
> Peter
>



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