Problem installing psycopg2 in virtualenv (Ubuntu 10.04, Python 2.5)

[Pascal Polleunus]

On 05/10/10 10:18, Alex Willmer wrote:
> On Oct 5, 7:41 am, Pascal Polleunus<p... at especific.be>  wrote:
>> On 05/10/10 00:11, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
>>> Install the python-dev-package. It contains the Python.h file, which the
>>> above error message pretty clearly says. Usually, it's a good idea to
>>> search package descriptions of debian/ubuntu packages for missing header
>>> files to know what to install.
>>
>> It's already installed; at least for 2.6, nor sure it's correct for 2.5.
>> python2.5-dev is not available but python-old-doctools replaces it.
>
> Ubuntu 10.04 doesn't have a full Python 2.5 packaged, as evidenced by
> the lack of python2.5-dev. You need to use Python 2.6 or if you
> absolutely must use Python 2.5 build it from source, try a Debian
> package or switch distro. python-old-doctools does not replace python-
> dev, it looks like it was bodged to keep some latex tools working.


Thanks Diez and Alex for you quick answers.

I finally used Python 2.6 and everything went fine.