Installing lxml module in python

Question

while running a python script, I got this error

  from lxml import etree
ImportError: No module named lxml

now I tried to install lxml

Answer 1

For RHEL/CentOS, run "python --version" command to find out Python version. E.g. below:

$ python --version 
  Python 2.7.12

Now run "sudo yum search lxml" to find out python*-lxml package.

$ sudo yum search lxml
Failed to set locale, defaulting to C
Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper
1014 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
============================================================================================================= N/S matched: lxml =============================================================================================================
python26-lxml-docs.noarch : Documentation for python-lxml
python27-lxml-docs.noarch : Documentation for python-lxml
python26-lxml.x86_64 : ElementTree-like Python bindings for libxml2 and libxslt
python27-lxml.x86_64 : ElementTree-like Python bindings for libxml2 and libxslt

Now you can choose package as per your Python version and run command like below:

$ sudo yum install python27-lxml.x86_64