Package libffi was not found in the pkg-config search path REDHAT6.5

Question

I am trying to run setup.py related to a proprietary software installation and it has dependencies on libffi.

Since its Redhat 6.5 the python version was 2.6 and i i

Answer 1

You will need the development version of libffi to install libraries which depends on libffi :

sudo yum install libffi-devel

This worked for me