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

Make sure that all the following packages are installed on your system first:

gcc gcc-c++ python-devel libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt libxslt-dev

You should be able to install them using some variant of: sudo apt-get install sudo yum install

Only after all of the above have been successfully installed should you attempt to run:

sudo pip install lxml