Error installing python-snappy: snappy-c.h: No such file or directory

Question

I am using amazon ec2 ubuntu 11.04 server

 sudo pip install python-snappy 

also I tried to downloaded package and entered \"sudo python set

Answer 1

According to the repo

How to install it on Mac OS X?

It has been reported a few times (Issue #7 and #23) that it can't be installed correctly the library in Mac. The procedure should be,

$ brew install snappy # snappy library from Google 
$ CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib" pip install python-snappy