[lxml-dev] Ubuntu Installation Woes

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Richard Alex Hofer wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 13:53 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>> A trick for getting all the build dependencies of some package that has
>> a (older, presumably) version in Ubuntu is to run
>>
>>   sudo apt-get build-dep python-lxml
>>
>> before you start your own build.
>>
> That's what puzzles me, I installed python-lxml, then removed it (but
> did nothing to remove the dependencies), and it still wouldn't let me
> build it.  I'm guessing it's because the current version in the Ubuntu
> repository is very old.

not having python-dev as a dependency is pretty unlikely, though.

Stefan