Error: Command 'Gcc' Failed with Exit Status 1 on Centos

I'm trying to install lxml package on CentOS using sudo pip install lxml and its throwing this error right at the end:

error:

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

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Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-root/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-PjviBq-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-root/lxml
Storing complete log in /root/.pip/pip.log

[hg@user-centos-1 ~]$ error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
bash: error:: command not found
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" error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 ". the installation failed because of missing python-devel and some dependencies.

the best way to correct gcc problem:

You need to reinstall gcc , gcc-c++ and dependencies.

For python 2.7

$ sudo yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel
$ sudo yum -y install python-devel libxslt-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel
$ pip install "your python packet"

For python 3.4

$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev
$ pip install "your python packet"

Hope this will help.

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Is gcc installed?

sudo yum install gcc
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I bet you have to install libxml2-devel or libxml++-devel or even python-devel. But it is only a wild guess, not seeing the actual error from the log file. But it seems gcc is missing either a header file or a library file.

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sudo yum install python36 python36-devel python36-libs python36-tools

if using python36, this is the best path for set up. Corrected this error for me on an aws ec2 instance

How i solved

# yum update
# yum install -y 
# yum install -y python36u python36u-libs python36u-devel python36u-pip
# pip3.6 install pipenv

I hope it will help Someone to resolve "gcc" issue.

pip install -U pip
pip install -U cython

I faced this issue on CentOS while installing Fasttext. The issue is fixed with the following.

yum install centos-release-scl
yum install scl-utils-build
yum install devtoolset-9
scl enable devtoolset-9 bash

Reference:

If the above doesn't work, then try:

yum install gcc libffi-devel python-devel openssl-devel -y

Reference:

yum install gcc-c++

centos GCP , this worked for me | Installing python3 lib implicit.

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David Miller

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