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

I had some trouble getting snappy to install. Finally downloaded the pre-build stuff as offered by https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ and all went well. (Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages)