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Trying to install an old python app, getting a libevent error

There is an old python app that I want to install on ubuntu.

When I run:

python setup.py install

I get this error:

/tmp/easy_install-s6CQJl/event-0.4.2/setup.py:23: UserWarning: Could not find libevent
  warnings.warn("Could not find libevent")
event.c:4:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory

I have installed

build-essential
python-setuptools
libevent-dev

Is there something else I am missing?

Solution 
  • event.c:4:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory

    It looks like you need the Python development headers. Try

    sudo apt-get install python-dev

    Edit:

    Hookbox can be successfully installed on Ubuntu 18.04 with a relatively modern Python 2.7. Here's a complete installation process:

    1. Install OS-level dependencies

      sudo add-apt-repository universe  # Required for old libevent
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install \
    build-essential \
    libevent1-dev \
    libevent-1.4-2 \
    python \
    python-dev \
    python-setuptools

    2. Clone the source code somewhere convenient

      git clone git://github.com/hookbox/hookbox.git

    3. Install Hookbox

      cd hookbox

# Ideally we should install Hookbox in a virtualenv
#
# Here is one way to do that
sudo apt-get install virtualenv
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate

python setup.py install

      If you use the virtualenv method outlined above you'll be able to run hookbox --help to see that it's working.

      You can exit the virtualenv with deactivate (and still run hookbox by providing an absolute path to path/to/hookbox/env/bin/hookbox) and re-enter it with source path/to/hookbox/env/bin/activate, at which point hookbox should be on your $PATH.

      If you choose not to use a virtualenv you'll need to use sudo python setup.py install here. That's not recommended as you'll be mixing manually installed Python packages with OS-supplied ones.