Installing pylibmc on Ubuntu

Question

When running

pip install pylibmc

on Ubuntu, I get the following error:

_pylibmcmodule.h:42:36: fatal error: libmemcached/me         


        

Answer 1

Install libmemcached using below command

sudo apt-get install libmemcached-dev zlib1g-dev

Then set the environment variable and install

LIBMEMCACHED=/opt/local pip install pylibmc