Installing lxml module in python

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while running a python script  I got this error    from lxml import etree ImportError  No module named lxml   now I tried to install lxml  sudo easy install lmxl   but it gives me the following error  Building lxml version 2 3 beta1  NOTE  Trying to build without Cython  pre-generated  src lxml lxml etree c  needs to be available  ERROR   bin sh  xslt-config  not found     make sure the development packages of libxml2 and libxslt are installed      Using build configuration of libxslt   src lxml lxml etree c 4  fatal error  Python h  No such file or directory compilation terminated  error  Setup script exited with error  command  gcc  failed with exit status 1

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For python 3 this worked for me sudo apt-get install python3-lxml

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Just do   sudo apt-get install python-lxml   For Python 2  e g   required by Inkscape    sudo apt-get install python2-lxml   If you are planning to install from source  then albertov s answer will help  But unless there is a reason  don t  just install it from the repository

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If you are encountering this issue on an Alpine based image try this    apk add --update --no-cache g   gcc libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python-dev libffi-dev openssl-dev make      pip install -r requirements txt

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You need to install Python s header files  python-dev package in debian ubuntu  to compile lxml  As well as libxml2  libxslt  libxml2-dev  and libxslt-dev   apt-get install python-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev

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For RHEL CentOS  run  python --version  command to find out Python version  E g  below     python --version    Python 2 7 12   Now run  sudo yum search lxml  to find out python -lxml package     sudo yum search lxml Failed to set locale  defaulting to C Loaded plugins  priorities  update-motd  upgrade-helper 1014 packages excluded due to repository priority protections                                                                                                               N S matched  lxml                                                                                                               python26-lxml-docs noarch   Documentation for python-lxml python27-lxml-docs noarch   Documentation for python-lxml python26-lxml x86 64   ElementTree-like Python bindings for libxml2 and libxslt python27-lxml x86 64   ElementTree-like Python bindings for libxml2 and libxslt   Now you can choose package as per your Python version and run command like below     sudo yum install python27-lxml x86 64

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I solved it upgrading the lxml version with   pip install --upgrade lxml

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If you re running python3  you ll have to do   pip3 install lxml

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