Error installing python-snappy: snappy-c.h: No such file or directory

Question

I am using amazon ec2 ubuntu 11.04 server

 sudo pip install python-snappy 

also I tried to downloaded package and entered \"sudo python set

Answer 1

for Oracle Linux with Python 3.X:

you need to enable optional_latest repository as a first step,

1. use for enabling the following repo

   $ yum-config-manager --enable ol7_optional_latest

   "ol7_optional_latest" repo will be enabled for yum lookup.

2. then install packages using,

   $ yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ snappy snappy-devel

3. then with pip install the python-snappy package,

   $ pip3 install python-snappy

Answer 2

You can install Snappy C library with following commands:

DEB-based: sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev

RPM-based: sudo yum install libsnappy-devel

Brew: brew install snappy

Answer 3

You need Snappy C library

Then you have to install python-snappy wrapper.

It seems you didn't install Snappy-C library

Try it ..as already a fellow commented for your post

UPDATE: See more highly upvoted post below, which includes instructions to install on DEB-based, RPM-based, and Mac OS (Brew).

Answer 4

I had some trouble getting snappy to install. Finally downloaded the pre-build stuff as offered by https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ and all went well. (Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages)

Answer 5

To solve this issue in Mac OS X with MacPorts installed, you can do:

$ sudo port install snappy
$ CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib" pip install python-snappy

Answer 6

According to the repo

How to install it on Mac OS X?

It has been reported a few times (Issue #7 and #23) that it can't be installed correctly the library in Mac. The procedure should be,

$ brew install snappy # snappy library from Google 
$ CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib" pip install python-snappy