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

Faced a similar issue while installing paramiko using pip3:

$ pip3 install paramiko

ERROR:

Package libffi was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libffi.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libffi' found

No package 'libffi' found c/_cffi_backend.c:15:17: fatal error: ffi.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated.

distutils.errors.DistutilsExecError: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

RESOLUTION:

$ sudo apt-get install libffi-dev
$ pip3 install paramiko

Successfully installed asn1crypto bcrypt cffi cryptography-1.2.3 paramiko-1.16.0 pycparser pynacl six-1.10.0