Install GDAL in virtualenvwrapper environment

Question

I tried to install gdal (pip install gdal)in virtualenvwrapper environment but I got this error :

  error: command \'gcc\' failed with exit status 1

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Answer 1

use pygdal

pd@asghar:~$sudo apt-get install python3-gdal 

pd@asghar:~$ virtualenv -p python3 test
Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/python3
Using base prefix '/usr'
New python executable in /home/pd/test/bin/python3
Also creating executable in /home/pd/test/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.

pd@asghar:~$  gdal-config --version
2.1.3
pd@asghar:~$ test/bin/pip install pygdal==2.1.3
Collecting pygdal==2.1.3
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pygdal==2.1.3 (from versions: 1.8.1.0, 1.8.1.1, 1.8.1.2, 1.8.1.3, 1.9.2.0, 1.9.2.1, 1.9.2.3, 1.10.0.0, 1.10.0.1, 1.10.0.3, 1.10.1.0, 1.10.1.1, 1.10.1.3, 1.11.0.0, 1.11.0.1, 1.11.0.3, 1.11.1.0, 1.11.1.1, 1.11.1.3, 1.11.2.1, 1.11.2.3, 1.11.3.3, 1.11.4.3, 1.11.5.3, 2.0.0.3, 2.0.1.3, 2.0.2.3, 2.0.3.3, 2.1.0.3, 2.1.1.3, 2.1.2.3, 2.1.3.3, 2.2.0.3)
No matching distribution found for pygdal==2.1.3
pd@asghar:~$ test/bin/pip install pygdal==2.1.3.3
Collecting pygdal==2.1.3.3
Collecting numpy>=1.0.0 (from pygdal==2.1.3.3)
  Using cached numpy-1.13.1-cp35-cp35m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
Installing collected packages: numpy, pygdal
Successfully installed numpy-1.13.1 pygdal-2.1.3.3
pd@asghar:~$ source test/bin/activate
(test) pd@asghar:~$ python
Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 17 2016, 17:05:23) 
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from osgeo import gdal
>>>