How to install development package on linux?

[Sarbjit singh]

On Sunday, March 3, 2013 12:09:46 PM UTC+5:30, Sarbjit singh wrote:
> On Sunday, March 3, 2013 11:53:50 AM UTC+5:30, Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
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> > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Sarbjit singh <sarbjit1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > I searched on google and found these errors could be due to missing python header files which would be available in development package.
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> > > So I am struggling to make it work.
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> > A "development package" is meaningless when you aren't installing it
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> > from a package. Debian's binary packages don't include the header
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> > files, so they put them in a different package. Since you compiled
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> Yes, I configured the makefile for mod_wsgi as without any error :
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>  ./configure --prefix=/opt/lampp/ --with-apxs=/opt/lampp/bin/apxs --with-python=/opt/lampp/python/bin/python2.7 --with-mutex-dir=/opt/lampp/var/run/wsgi

Also my LD_LIBRARY_PATH does have path as :

/opt/lammp/python/lib

Just one more point, while initially I was trying to compiling the mod_wsgi, I was getting error for "libpython2.7.1.0.so Shared library error".

I resolved it by creating a soft link to this file in my /usr/lib and /usr/lib64. At that point also my LD_LIBRARY_PATH was having path for python lib but was resolved with soft link only.