I have Python on my Ubuntu system but gcc can t find Python h

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I am on a school computer  so I can t install anything   I am trying to create C code which can be run in Python   It seems all the articles I am finding on it require you to use   include  lt Python h gt    I do this  but when I compile it complains that there is no such file or directory   The computer has Python  at least it has the python command in the terminal  and we can run whatever Python code we want    I typed in locate Python h in the terminal  but it found nothing   I have two questions    Can I write C code that I can call in Python without Python h  Am I missing something  and the computer actually has Python h

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You need the python-dev package which contains Python h

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You have to use  include  python2 7 Python h  instead of  include  Python h

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The header files are now provided by libpython2 7-dev   You can use the search form at packages ubuntu com to find out what package provides Python h

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On ubuntu you can just type sudo apt-get install python-dev -y in terminal to install the python-dev package

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None of the answers worked for me  If you are running on Ubuntu  you can try  With python3  sudo apt-get install python3 python-dev python3-dev        build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev        libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev        python-pip  With Python 2  sudo apt-get install python-dev         build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev        libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev        python-pip

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I found the answer in ubuntuforums  ubuntuforums   you can just add this to your gcc     python-config --includes      gcc   python-config --includes  urfile c

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It happens because Python h is not located in the default include folder  which is  usr include       Installing Python-dev might help     sudo apt-get install python-dev    But mostly the problem will persist because the development packages are made inside a separate folder inside the include folder itself    usr include python2 7 or python3    So you should either specify the library folder using -I option in gcc or by creating soft-links to everything inside those folders to just outside  I d prefer the former option    Using -I option in gcc     gcc -o hello -I  usr include python2 7 helloworld c   Creating soft-links      sudo ln -sv  usr include python2 7    usr include

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That means you are not install libraries for python dev   If you are on Linux OS  you can solve this issue by commands separately below    Ubuntu  Debian     sudo apt-get install python-dev  Py2  or sudo apt-get install python3-dev  Py3  Rehat   CentOS    yum install python-devel

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Go to Synaptic package manager  Reload -  Search for python -  select the python package you want -  Submit -  Install  Works for me     Exactly  the package you need to install is python-dev

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I ran into the same issue while trying to build a very old copy of omniORB on a CentOS 7 machine   Resolved the issue by installing the python development libraries     yum install python-devel   This installed the Python h into    usr include python2 7 Python h

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You need python-dev installed  For Ubuntu    sudo apt-get install python-dev     for python2 x installs sudo apt-get install python3-dev    for python3 x installs  For more distros  refer - https   stackoverflow com a 21530768 6841045

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locate Python h  If the output is empty  then find your python version python --version  lets say it is X x i e 2 7 or 3 6  3 7  3 8 Then with the same version install header files and static libraries for python sudo apt-get install pythonX x-dev

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For Ubuntu 15 10 and Python 3  comming to this question as they don t have Python h but having administrative rights  the following might solve it   sudo apt-get install python-dev sudo apt-get install python3-dev sudo apt-get install libpython3-dev sudo apt-get install libpython3 4-dev sudo apt-get install libpython3 5-dev

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On Ubuntu  you would need to install a package called python-dev   Since this package doesn t seem to be installed  locate Python h didn t find anything  and you can t install it system-wide yourself  we need a different solution   You can install Python in your home directory -- you don t need any special permissions to do this   If you are allowed to use a web browser and run a gcc  this should work for you   To this end       Download the source tarball  Unzip with  tar xjf Python-2 7 2 tar bz2  Build and install with  cd Python-2 7 2   configure --prefix  home username python --enable-unicode ucs4 make make install    Now  you have a complete Python installation in your home directory   Pass -I  home username python include to gcc when compiling to make it aware of Python h   Pass -L  home username python lib and -lpython2 7 when linking

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