Question

I’m currently trying to install a few modules via virtualenv, which I have bootstrapped at the moment, and so far pip and easy_install have been working fine. I am now trying to install the Sybase module; however, it seems I need gcc to install it as I’m getting the following output:

running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6
copying Sybase.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6
running build_ext
building 'sybasect' extension
creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6
gcc ...
unable to execute gcc: No such file or directory

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

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I am now trying to install the python dev package which I’m assuming will solve my problem; however, I don’t have network access from the command line and can’t use yum install. Is there a way to install the python dev package from a tar.gz or some other method? or just gcc for virtualenv? My machine does not have a native gcc either and I can’t get it at this stage.

Answer 1

Installing python-dev will not solve your problem as you miss GNU C compiler on your system.
Installing that one, will probably fix your issue. python-dev is a secondary and missing that one will result in different type of errors (namely missing headers during compilation process).

And.. if you can’t get native gcc, I’m afraid you’re out of luck at this point.