Setup.py: install lxml with Python2.6 on CentOS

Question

I have installed Python 2.6.6 on CentOS 5.4,

[@SC-055 lxml-2.3beta1]$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jan  4 2011, 09:49:55) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4         


        

Answer 1

these works for me

yum -y install python-devel gcc libxml2 libxml2-devel libxslt libxslt-devel

especially the python-devel