Where Is the Python Library Installed?

Question

When I try to do ./configure over AWN v0.4 I get this error:

configure: error: in `/home/desktop/Software/avant-window-navigator-0.4.0':
configure: error: 
  Could not link test program to Python. Maybe the main Python library has been
  installed in some non-standard library path. If so, pass it to configure,
  via the LDFLAGS environment variable.
  Example: ./configure LDFLAGS="-L/usr/non-standard-path/python/lib"
  ============================================================================
   ERROR!
   You probably have to install the development version of the Python package
   for your distribution.  The exact name of this package varies among them.

So maybe I can solve this adding the path of the python library to the command. But I don't know where is it.

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Accepted Answer

This message is not asking for the python libraries themselves, it's asking for the headers to link against them. You can install then with:

sudo apt-get install python-dev

You are probably lacking some other dependencies.

Answer 2

You should be able to find it in the following locations

/usr/lib/
/usr/local/lib/

Answer 3

I found myself in the same situation with VAMOS Automotive Simulator. The Python version was hardcoded in the configure file, so I had to install that version instead, in my case:

apt-get install python3.4-dev

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