Re: [libvirt-users] Installing the python libvirt bindings in a virtualenv

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Daniel Gonzalez wrote:

But this is failing with error message:

checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.7/site-packages checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.7/site-packages configure: error: You must install python-devel to build Python bindings

python-devel does not exist. I have used python-all-dev, but it has not solved the problem.

In Debian and derivates, I believe the package you want to install is called python2.7-dev. Also, I would use the latest libvirt release (0.9.11) instead of 0.9.9.