setup script exited with error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

Question

When I try to install odoo-server, I got the following error:

error: Setup script exited with error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

Could anyone help me to solve this issue?

Solution 1

Try installing these packages.

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool pkg-config python-opengl python-pil python-pyrex python-pyside.qtopengl idle-python2.7 qt4-dev-tools qt4-designer libqtgui4 libqtcore4 libqt4-xml libqt4-test libqt4-script libqt4-network libqt4-dbus python-qt4 python-qt4-gl libgle3 python-dev libssl-dev

sudo easy_install greenlet

sudo easy_install gevent

Solution 2

I encountered the same problem in college having installed Linux Mint for the main project of my final year, the third solution below worked for me.

When encountering this error please note before the error it may say you are missing a package or header file — you should find those and install them and verify if it works (e.g. ssl → libssl).

For Python 2.x use:

sudo apt-get install python-dev

For Python 2.7 use:

sudo apt-get install libffi-dev

For Python 3.x use:

sudo apt-get install python3-dev

or for a specific version of Python 3, replace x with the minor version in

sudo apt-get install python3.x-dev

Solution 3

Python.h is nothing but a header file. It is used by gcc to build applications. You need to install a package called python-dev. This package includes header files, a static library and development tools for building Python modules, extending the Python interpreter or embedding Python in applications.

enter:

$ sudo apt-get install python-dev

or

# apt-get install python-dev

see http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-linux-python-h-file-not-found-error-solution/

Solution 4

You need to install these packages:

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libffi-dev

Solution 5

For Python 3.4 use:

sudo apt-get install python3.4-dev

For Python 3.5 use:

sudo apt-get install python3.5-dev

For Python 3.6 use:

sudo apt-get install python3.6-dev

For Python 3.7 use:

sudo apt-get install python3.7-dev

For Python 3.8 use:

sudo apt-get install python3.8-dev

... and so on ...

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Comments

[Shashank]

i didn't found any reasonable answer about why this error happen! why we need to install all these packages...if possible then kindly explain "'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed" to me

[Shane Reustle]

Yeah, one of these packages might fix it but it would be nice to know which one particularly

[8bitjunkie]

This did not solve the problem for me: Reading state information... Done python-dev is already the newest version.

[Alfabravo]

build-essential and python-dev were enough in my case.

[reggie]

Downvoted for not answering the question. Why do I have to install qt4-docs to fix this problem?

[vinayrks]

build-essential and python-dev is enough for my

[ggnoredo]

should i use python3- for all packages if i want to run on python 3.5.1?

[Antoine Brunel]

@SummerSun If you're using python3, you should use: $sudo apt-get install python3-dev or $ sudo apt-get install python3.4-dev

[Summer Sun]

@antoinet but i am using python 2.7.4... I have solved this long ago but i don't remember any specific solution

[XelharK]

The only ones that are necessary are actually build-essential and python-dev

[XiR_]

Just installing this packages on ubuntu 14.4 did the trick for me: >sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool pkg-config python-opengl python-pyre Though this installed "python-dev" as dependency as next solution claims though it might be enough just this package

[Ajeet Shah]

And for python2:sudo apt-get install python-lxml

[nikhil komawar]

I have a comment here for python 2 (2.7) that works with sudo apt-get install libffi-dev , I will agree with python3-dev for py34 solution that worked for me.

[Cybersupernova]

sudo apt-get install python-dev solves the problem

[Dário]

Not only this solution helped me fix my ffi.h missing dependency but also helped fixing other missing dependencies. Thanks!

[Esteban]

Me too. The accepted answer seems a little excessive.

[Kenly]

Odoo don't depend on python-numpy.

[viddik13]

Helped for python 3

[Laxmikant]

I had tried with build-essential and python-dev but it did not work then finally I just copied full line sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool pkg-config python-opengl python-imaging python-pyrex python-pyside.qtopengl idle-python2.7 qt4-dev-tools qt4-designer libqtgui4 libqtcore4 libqt4-xml libqt4-test libqt4-script libqt4-network libqt4-dbus python-qt4 python-qt4-gl libgle3 python-dev And It worked like a charm :D

[DanMossa]

This worked for me as well without having to download a bunch from the accepted answer

[Dodgie]

@ShaneReustle The very last one, actually. Hah

[shadyyx]

This one worked for me. I had all python and build packages from previous answers, I was missing these lib* packages. THANKS!

[Muhammad Hassan]

This is the only solution worked for me in Ubuntu 16.04

[Phyticist]

I have solved my psycopg2 problem by installing postgresql-devel package on CentOS.

[Or Duan]

As a side note, I just used sudo apt-get install python3.6-dev and it also worked.

[Mr_Spock]

Definitely worked for me: Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit; zshell + tmux

[Pobe]

This is usually this library that is missing when I install cryptography package in python.

[SteveJ]

Boy that was tough -- I installed everything mentioned above on my system until this one finally fixed it for me. I'm using a virtualenv with python3.6. Thank you for that.

[jefferson.macedo]

The installation of "python-dev" helped me. I'm installing yara through pip install. Thank you!

[ivanleoncz]

For sure, this compiler error presented on the question, is very relative. My case, for example, was just like yours: I was installing bcrypt via pip3, and the output was quite huge and observing the first messages from pip3 install bcrypt, I realized that libffi-dev was the package which was causing all the trouble for the next steps of the installation process. Well observed, friend :). I hope you don't my mind, if I give some cents to your answer, which for me, deserves a better consideration. Regards.

[Karan]

sudo apt-get install python3.6-dev solved for me . because i updated to 3.6

[Paulie]

Answer does not give a definitive answer to the question, just asks the user to install a bunch of packages in 'hopes' that one of them fixes your problem.

[Radovan Svedic]

Solution for Python 2.7 WORKED for Python 2.7.6 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS. Perfect!

[claudod]

This was the issue for me too. I could tell it from the stdout line "src/pycurl.h:164:28: fatal error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory" printed just before the line questioned in this post "error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1"

[kRazzy R]

E: Unable to locate package lxml I get the following. :(

[ecolell]

Or executing sudo apt-get install python3-dev.

[Jay Modi]

On the general note, I later checked the setup.py file of oursql package and found out that it uses mysqld and thus I installed sudo apt-get install libmysqld-dev and it worked for me.

[Jay Modi]

macOS solution for oursql installation problems: askubuntu.com/questions/663919/…

[Paulie]

Thanks for the comment @Schütze, but this isn't the accepted answer for the question, I'm always happy to help, so you can tell me about your error or you can try the accepted or other solutions, or raise a question on Stackoverflow to solve your problem.

[SolitaryReaper]

For python3.x use the command $sudo apt-get install python3.x-dev

[Samuel Dauzon]

I use additionally apt-get install build-essential to solve my problem.

[yunus]

Usually this Happens when we dont use environment

[xaos_xv]

Worked on void linux.

[Anas Tiour]

This will most likely work on clean systems, but in my case all I was missing was the 3 packages: libldap2-dev, libpq-dev and libsasl2-dev

[Kushan Gunasekera]

@kRazzyR try to run sudo apt-get install python-lxml command

[Anthony Collins]

Helped for python 3.7

[nnov]

if you are using ubuntu, you also need to install build-essential. check this answer: stackoverflow.com/a/54534118/3453776

[nnov]

in ubuntu you only need build-essential and python-dev, in linux mint only python-dev

[nnov]

i would add that in ubuntu you also have to install build-essential. i've just solved this issue with it. in linux mint i had the same problem and python-dev solved it alone.

[Artisan]

libssl-dev did it for me

[Jeetendra Pujari]

This really helped. I was missing file called pcrecpp.h. And the package I had to install was libpcre3-dev.

[Furqan Hashim]

@Paulie how to install in a virtualenv? I've python 3.6 in venv and globally python3.6, it is installed for global python3.6 but can't install for python3.6. Any work around?

[Paulie]

@FurqanHashim My solution isn't to fix odoo-server, it's a fix for the actual error.

[Malachi Bazar]

Worked for Ubuntu 19.10 with Python 3.7

[ambigus9]

Perfect!! Solved!

[Elinaldo Monteiro]

I'm using the Python3.8 sudo apt-get install python3.8-dev

[Lord ST]

just for adding more info, this error solved for me by answers from this QA -> [stackoverflow.com/q/34819221/4417806]

[The Dodo]

For ubuntu server 20.04, build-essential and python-dev did the job.

[obotezat]

needed apt-get install python3.x-dev for python 3.7

[dexXxed]

$ sudo apt-get install python3.x-dev worked for python3.7

[Sohaib Asif]

Worked for Ubuntu 20.04 with Python 2.7

[Ursin Brunner]

With every new version of python I land here again :-)

[Aymen Alsaadi]

You only need sudo apt-get install build-essential and sudo apt-get install python3.*-dev

[Ajay Kumar]

Thanks.....this works for me ....for specific python version

[StuckInPhDNoMore]

I had already installed python3.x-dev but still had problems, but Samuel's suggestion of sudo apt-get install build-essential worked perfectly

[Joseph Zhou]

build-essential solved the problem for me.

[bileleleuch]

Thank you it worked for 20.04 with python 3.8

[Saeed]

sudo apt-get install python3.9-dev works like a charm :)

[automationleg]

python3.7-dev package helped me. All the others not really. Only after I installed this one it worked.

[hafiz031]

Mentioning python version is important, in my case this command installed python-dev for python 2.7 which didn't work. But when I mentioned the version like: sudo apt-get install python3.8-dev this worked (I also had python 3.8 installed in my machine). See @kame's answer.

[Sal Borrelli]

It might resolve the problem, no doubts about that, but I believe this is certainly not the "minimum" number of packages that achieve the same result. For example, installing python3-dev and gcc was enough in my case.

[Amir Shabani]

This worked for me. Ubuntu 18.04, Python 3.9.6.

[Mark Anthony Libres]

@Shashank same as me i am using ubuntu 20.04 and Pycharm. i dont know why i need to install python3.x-dev to my source where it is already bulitin on pycharm env.

[tno2007]

It is a lot of packages, but everyone's needs will be different. This answer is to ensure you have no issues. It's best too install and test each package, one by one, if your are concerned about too many packages

[HeadzzZ]

sudo apt-get install python3.8-dev works perfectly on my Linux board. The other commands cannot. Thank you~

[Eric]

This was the same issue I was facing i.e. "an error specific to the sql.h header file" and this solution worked!

[William]

worked for me. I install a specific old Python version (3.7) and needed to install further dependencies

[Esben Eickhardt]

So clean that is it not even reasonable! Thanks!

[Mahadev Gouda]

Yes i had the same issue , this worked fine for me

[almanegra]

Yep that was the only thing I needed too!

[Vikash Choudhary]

For me, adding the additional package including the mentioned as worked like a charm. "RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y python3 python3-pip libffi-dev libssl-dev cargo \ && pip3 install typing_extensions pdfminer.six" We're using Docker for one of our services.

[Blupon]

I only needed to install libpq-dev in my case (Ubuntu 20.04 with Python 3.8). Encountered the error while trying to pip install psycopg2.