libvirt users - Apr 2012 - Installing the python libvirt bindings in a virtualenv

Hi,

I have a virtualenv which I am using for production (I need python 2.7
and certain libraries which can not be easily installed on the host
environment).
Now I am trying to install also libvirt, but I have not succeeded yet.
The problem that I have now looks quite difficult to solve. This is
the script I am using to install libvirt (bash script):

install_libvirt_ ( ) {
? ? local myvirtualenv="$1"
? ? local libvirt_tag=v0.9.9
? ? cd $TMP_DIR
? ? git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt.git
? ? cd libvirt
? ? git checkout $libvirt_tag
? ? mkdir -p $VIRTUALENVS_DIR/$myvirtualenv/usr
? ? sudo apt-get install autopoint
? ? # configure: error: You must install the GnuTLS library in order
to compile and run libvirt
? ? sudo apt-get install -y gnutls-bin gnutls-dev
? ? # configure: error: You must install
device-mapper-devel/libdevmapper >= 1.0.0 to compile libvirt
? ? sudo apt-get install -y libdevmapper-dev libdevmapper
? ? # configure: error: You must install python-devel to build Python bindings
? ? sudo apt-get install -y python-all-dev
? ? ./autogen.sh --prefix=$VIRTUALENVS_DIR/$myvirtualenv/usr
--enable-compile-warnings=error
? ? make
? ? make install
}

But this is failing with error message:

checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.7/site-packages
checking for python extension module directory...
${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.7/site-packages
configure: error: You must install python-devel to build Python bindings

python-devel does not exist. I have used python-all-dev, but it has
not solved the problem.

Has somebody succeeded in installing libvirt-python inside a virtualenv?

Thanks,
Daniel Gonzalez

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Daniel Gonzalez wrote:
> But this is failing with error message:
> 
> checking for python script directory...
${prefix}/lib/python2.7/site-packages
> checking for python extension module directory...
> ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.7/site-packages
> configure: error: You must install python-devel to build Python bindings
> 
> python-devel does not exist. I have used python-all-dev, but it has
> not solved the problem.
In Debian and derivates, I believe the package you want to install is
called python2.7-dev. Also, I would use the latest libvirt release
(0.9.11) instead of 0.9.9.