[egenix-users] Errors installing Egenix MX Base

[M.-A. Lemburg]

John wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to install Egenix MX Base for quite a while now, but I'm
> just not having any luck. My system is a up to date Ubuntu 9.04 box with
> Pythong 2.5 (tried 2.6 as well).
> 
> The problem is an endless log of errors when trying to run "python setup.py
> install" or derivatives that might run that one behind the screen.
> (Easy_install etc) Pretty much all of the errors look like this
> http://pastebin.com/m49774327 , I tried logging to a file, but that only
> shows the gcc commands, which aren't shocking at all.
> 
> Am I missing some package?

The errors you listed look a lot like you're missing the Python
development packages for your system.

This message is a good indication for this:

mx/DateTime/mxDateTime/mxDateTime.c:4980: warning: implicit declaration of function
'PyString_FromString'

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