installing Reportlab (error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 )
I'm trying to install ReportLab 2.4 on a 10.04.2 server with virtualenv. In the ReportLab_2_4 folder I use: python setup.py install and the error I get: error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 Eino Mäkitalo As Skimantas said, I think you should install python-dev. sudo apt-get install python-dev and I was able to install reportlab into my home directory with command " pip install reportlab " without sudo as mentioned earlier answer. I need only root access to install python-dev. Shortly.. I installed virtualenv sudo apt-get install python-setuptools sudo easy_install virtualenv