You need to also install the python development package (python-dev), which contains the headers.

Mike

On 09/13/2012 02:06 PM, Michael Rawlins wrote:

Following instructions here:

http://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/installing.html

Got this error and termination after issuing python setup.py install from the basemap directory.

src/_proj.c:4:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
error: Command "gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -Isrc -I/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/core/include -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c src/_proj.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/src/_proj.o" failed with exit status 1


I'm running a new installation of Ubuntu 12.04. I installed Python and Matplotlib through package manager. Several examples tested fine. I see no Python.h file on my system. Thanks in advance for suggestions.

MR



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