error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 on CentOS

Question

I\'m trying to install lxml package on CentOS using sudo pip install lxml and its throwing this error right at the end:

error:

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Answer 1

I bet you have to install libxml2-devel or libxml++-devel or even python-devel. But it is only a wild guess, not seeing the actual error from the log file. But it seems gcc is missing either a header file or a library file.