Installing easy_install… to get to installing lxml

Question

I\'ve come to grips with the fact that ElementTree isn\'t going to do what I want it to do. I\'ve checked out the documentation for lxml, and it appears that it will serve my pu

Answer 1

It looks like lxml wants to build an extension that requires access to a C compiler. You will need gcc for that. Try running sudo apt-get install build-essential and that should fix this particular issue.