“error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1” in virtualenv

Question

Environment: Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon.

This error is displayed:

error: command \'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc\' failed with exit status 1

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Answer 1

This can be a problem in the pip. To solve, try:

sudo apt-get remove python-pip

To install pip, securely download get-pip.py.

https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py

sudo python get-pip.py

Answer 2

Work for me :
Just install python2.7-dev first
sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev

Answer 3

Easiest way is:

sudo apt-get build-dep python-imaging

and then

pip install pillow

Answer 4

This works for me, 12.04, python2.7.6 for package lxml

sudo pip install libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
sudo pip install lxml

Answer 5

The cffi library needs libffi-dev:

sudo apt-get install libffi libffi-dev

Answer 6

In Ubuntu 16.04.1 this worked for me:

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python-dev