fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory, python-Levenshtein install

Question

Firstly, I'm working on an Amazon EC2 instance, Amazon linux version 2 AMI using Python 3.7.

I'm trying to install the python-Levenshtein package using the command:

pip3 install python-Levenshtein --user

and I'm getting a rather huge error, with the key parts being;

gcc -pthread -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -fPIC -I/usr/include/python3.7m -c Levenshtein/_levenshtein.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.7/Levenshtein/_levenshtein.o
Levenshtein/_levenshtein.c:99:10: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
 #include <Python.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

and:

Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-m87wdfsg/python-Levenshtein/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-w3meudfd-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-m87wdfsg/python-Levenshtein/

I've tried many, many solutions, the main one being this: error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 while installing eventlet

Edit

Tried this...

1) sudo yum install python-devel (no change)
2) reinstalling GCC (no change)
3) spinning up a clean EC2 instance (same error)
4) pip install python-dev-tools (now gives me the error repeated 2x)
5) attempting to find Python.h using 'locate "Python.h"' (nothing)
6) sudo yum list python37-devel (error: no matching packages)

Install your operating system's python-dev package or equivalent. If you just say you tried "many" things, that doesn't help us rule any of them out. You'll need to be specific. — Charles Duffy
– Charles Duffy, Commented Mar 3, 2020 at 14:42
the link attached had the list of things that ive tried. ive pasted them in the message now — roastbeeef
– roastbeeef, Commented Mar 3, 2020 at 16:09
...now that we know that you're using an image that uses rpm as its package manager: What does rpm -qf /usr/bin/python3 say? — Charles Duffy
– Charles Duffy, Commented Mar 3, 2020 at 16:13
Okay, then it'll definitely be python3-devel you want, not just plain python-devel (or python37-devel). — Charles Duffy
– Charles Duffy, Commented Mar 3, 2020 at 16:22

roastbeeef · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-03 17:00:25Z

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Thanks to Charles, the answer is as follows:

sudo yum install python3-devel

answered Mar 3, 2020 at 17:00

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2 Comments

Fanchen Bao Over a year ago

I hit the same problem when trying to install psycopg2 on EC2 with Amazon linux. I am using python3.8, so installing python3-devel doesn't work for me. I have to do sudo yum install python38-devel to resolve the issue.

Batman Over a year ago

for similar issue in ubuntu, I used sudo apt install python3-dev, fixed it. Thanks.

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