I'm not sure this is the right place for this but I'm don't know where else to put this.
I want to give fabric a try (as recommended here: http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/10/24/starting-a-django-14-project-the-right-way/). Installing fabric results in two dependencies (paramiko and pycrypto) being installed as well. All is dandy until it is time to install pycrypto. A bit of searching reveals this in the documentation: Package tools We strongly recommend using pip to install Fabric as it is newer and generally better than easy_install. However, a combination of bugs in specific versions of Python, pip and PyCrypto can prevent installation of PyCrypto. Specifically: Python = 2.5.x PyCrypto >= 2.1 (which is required to run Fabric >= 1.3) pip < 0.8.1 When all three criteria are met, you may encounter No such file or directory IOErrors when trying to pip install Fabric or pip install PyCrypto. The fix is simply to make sure at least one of the above criteria is not met, by doing the following (in order of preference): Upgrade to pip 0.8.1 or above, e.g. by running pip install -U pip. Upgrade to Python 2.6 or above. Downgrade to Fabric 1.2.x, which does not require PyCrypto >= 2.1, and install PyCrypto 2.0.1 (the oldest version on PyPI which works with Fabric 1.2.) (dp130128)cheeky@n5110:~/proj/dp130128$ yolk -l Django - 1.4.3 - active Python - 2.7.3 - active development (/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload) <--check South - 0.7.6 - active argparse - 1.2.1 - active development (/usr/lib/python2.7) pip - 1.2.1 - active <--check setuptools - 0.6c11 - active wsgiref - 0.1.2 - active development (/usr/lib/python2.7) yolk - 0.4.3 - active I've got pip and python covered above but I'm still unable to install fabric as shown below. (dp130128)cheeky@n5110:~/proj/dp130128$ pip install fabric Downloading/unpacking fabric Running setup.py egg_info for package fabric warning: no previously-included files matching '*' found under directory 'docs/_build' warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyc' found under directory 'tests' warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyo' found under directory 'tests' Downloading/unpacking paramiko>=1.9.0 (from fabric) Running setup.py egg_info for package paramiko Downloading/unpacking pycrypto>=2.1,!=2.4 (from paramiko>=1.9.0->fabric) Running setup.py egg_info for package pycrypto Installing collected packages: fabric, paramiko, pycrypto Running setup.py install for fabric warning: no previously-included files matching '*' found under directory 'docs/_build' warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyc' found under directory 'tests' warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyo' found under directory 'tests' Installing fab script to /home/cheeky/.virtualenvs/dp130128/bin Running setup.py install for paramiko Running setup.py install for pycrypto warning: GMP or MPIR library not found; Not building Crypto.PublicKey._fastmath. building 'Crypto.Hash._MD2' extension gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -std=c99 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -Isrc/ -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c src/MD2.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/src/MD2.o src/MD2.c:31:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 Complete output from command /home/cheeky/.virtualenvs/dp130128/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/home/cheeky/.virtualenvs/dp130128/build/pycrypto/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-0X00No-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --install-headers /home/cheeky/.virtualenvs/dp130128/include/site/python2.7: running install running build running build_py running build_ext running build_configure warning: GMP or MPIR library not found; Not building Crypto.PublicKey._fastmath. building 'Crypto.Hash._MD2' extension gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -std=c99 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -Isrc/ -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c src/MD2.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/src/MD2.o src/MD2.c:31:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 ---------------------------------------- Command /home/cheeky/.virtualenvs/dp130128/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/home/cheeky/.virtualenvs/dp130128/build/pycrypto/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-0X00No-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --install-headers /home/cheeky/.virtualenvs/dp130128/include/site/python2.7 failed with error code 1 in /home/cheeky/.virtualenvs/dp130128/build/pycrypto Storing complete log in /home/cheeky/.pip/pip.log -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
