I am trying to install something in my virtual environment, which uses anaconda python 3.6. I get the gcc failed with exit status 1, hinting on the absence of the right python3-devel package, as described in error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 while installing eventlet.
To fix the error, I tried to install the python3-devel package on my server running RHEL 7.3.
I did yum install python3-devel, but got a 'package not found' error. Then I found https://serverfault.com/questions/710354/repository-for-python3-devel-on-centos-7, which hints to the python34-devel package in the EPEL repository. I installed it using yum, but upon trying to install something in my virtual environment, I still get the gcc failed with exit status 1 error.
Does someone know how I can fix this? All help would be much apprechiated.
Search for the package in yum , use the following command:
yum search python3 | grep devel
It will list all the available devel packages. The result will be somewhat like this
python3-cairo-devel.x86_64 : Libraries and headers for python3-cairo
python3-devel.x86_64 : Libraries and header files needed for Python 3
: development
python34-devel.x86_64 : Libraries and header files needed for Python 3
: development
Then you can choose the package you want to install from the list , suppose if you want to to install python3-devel , execute the following
yum install -y python3-devel.x86_64
There are no python3-* packages from Red Hat in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 or 7.
However there are python3-* packages available if you enable third party repos like EPEL or IUS. But, these are not supported by Red Hat. Chances are if you are running RHEL, your organization has a preference for supported packages.
You can get supported Python 3 packages from Red Hat via Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL). Currently Python 3.6 is the newest available, the package name is rh-python36. Installing the RHSCL package will also install rh-python36-devel and a number of other packages.
See How to install Python 3, pip, venv, virtualenv, and pipenv on RHEL
Don't forget to install @development first, so you have gcc, make, etc. for building any dynamically loaded shared objects.
To install:
$ su -
# subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-optional-rpms \
--enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms
# yum -y install @development
# yum -y install rh-python36
# yum -y install rh-python36-numpy \
rh-python36-scipy \
rh-python36-python-tools \
rh-python36-python-six
# exit
The blog linked above has lots of tips for working with Python, virtual environments, as well as software collections on Red Hat.
