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

had lots of issues installing on El Capitan, with an error saying that the snappy-c.h file was not found.

Had to install snappy from tar.gz file https://github.com/google/snappy/releases/download/1.1.3/snappy-1.1.3.tar.gz

untar and run

./configure
make
make install

it will put the header file in /usr/local/include

then needed to set FLAGS for the cc compiler to find the header file:

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/include
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/snappy-c.h"
export CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/snappy-c.h"
export CXXFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/snappy-c.h"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"

and then I installed python-snappy from the egg file https://pypi.python.org/packages/b1/fe/1d632cdac5dbb5ce84db778af7f733eb469130d8cf4c02f6cd9057a96768/snappy-2.4.1-py2.7-macosx-10.5-intel.egg#md5=b76558c71f1d97feeb8402c345e466bf

you can try with pip install python-snappy but it originally failed to find the header file, so i went for the egg file

to install the egg:

easy_install 
python setup.py build
python setup.py install