rpy2 install problems on debian

Question

I have tried every install method I can think of to install RPy2 on our debian server and I get the same message regardless. I have installed and used it successfully on my mac.

Answer 1

As pointed in rpy2 installation on Ubuntu, sometimes a missing python-dev (python-devel in RHEL) may cause these issues. You can fix by either

    sudo apt-get install python-dev

or

    sudo yum install python-devel

Or other OS specific instruction for installing python-dev[el]