How to install development package on linux?

[Sarbjit singh]

On Saturday, March 2, 2013 2:15:08 PM UTC+5:30, Kwpolska wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Sarbjit singh <sarbjit1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Sorry for this basic question but I am having problem compiling mod_wsgi on Linux. As per mod_wsgi package site, user must have python development package installed on system.
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> > I had installed Python2.7 on my Linux system from source code, using the following configuration few months back :-
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> > ./configure –prefix=<path> --enable-shared
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> > Make –i install
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> > But I am not able to find how to install development package from source code.
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> > Can some one please conform if I can install the development package from the same source code (Downloaded from Python Website for Unix) and please share the configuration switch for the same.
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> > Thanks,
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> > Sarbjit
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> Why do you use source tarballs?  Your distro should provide nice
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> binary packages for Python and mod_wsgi.  And in case it doesn’t, your
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> distro sucks and you should find a better one.
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> The development things are usually installed by default by most
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> things.  Distributions offer them in -dev or -devel packages.
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I am using Red Hat 5, could you please give some pointers on how to install these packages?