Installing M2Crypto on CentOS

Question

I am trying to install M2Crypto on CentOS by compiling from the source. i am doing a python setup.py build But I get the following error,

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Answer 1

I just had this problem. In M2Crypto's INSTALL file:

Note about Fedora Core -based Distributions
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Fedora Core (and RedHat, CentOS etc.) have made changes to OpenSSL
configuration compared to many other Linux distributions. If you can not
build M2Crypto normally, try the fedora_setup.sh script included with
M2Crypto sources.

My solution was to get the sources from PyPI or from the source. Then in the M2Crypto directory:

$ chmod +x fedora_setup.py
$ ./fedora_setup.py install

If you're using a virtualenv, change the path of the python interpreter in that file, or activate your environment before building.

The only dependency that I had that wasn't satisfied on my system was openssl-devel.