Ubuntu – trying to install Python Couchbase lib – “libcouchbase/couchbase.h: No such file or directory”

All,

I’m trying to install the Python Couchbase lib in my Linux server, but it’s failing with “libcouchbase/couchbase.h: No such file or directory”. I also cannot find which package contains the couchbase.h file. How can I fix this?

ubuntu@ip-172-31-17-167:~$ sudo easy_install couchbase
Searching for couchbase
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/couchbase/
Best match: couchbase 1.2.4
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/couchbase/couchbase-1.2.4.tar.gz#md5=4a51bf3ac1fa26bcb9433d53ac4ba34b
Processing couchbase-1.2.4.tar.gz
Writing /tmp/easy_install-ZF8OtY/couchbase-1.2.4/setup.cfg
Running couchbase-1.2.4/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-ZF8OtY/couchbase-1.2.4/egg-dist-tmp-Az4Noq
In file included from src/exceptions.c:17:0:
src/pycbc.h:25:36: fatal error: libcouchbase/couchbase.h: No such file or directory
 #include 
                                    ^
compilation terminated.
error: Setup script exited with error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
ubuntu@ip-172-31-17-167:~$ apt-file search couchbase.h
python-celery-doc: /usr/share/doc/python-celery-doc/html/_modules/celery/backends/couchbase.html
python-celery-doc: /usr/share/doc/python-celery-doc/html/internals/reference/celery.backends.couchbase.html

Answer

Try this: http://docs.couchbase.com/couchbase-sdk-c-2.3/#downloading-the-couchbase-client-library

So if you have Ubuntu 12.04:

1. sudo wget -O/etc/apt/sources.list.d/couchbase.list http://packages.couchbase.com/ubuntu/couchbase-ubuntu1204.list
2. wget -O- http://packages.couchbase.com/ubuntu/couchbase.key | sudo apt-key add -
3. sudo apt-get update
4. sudo apt-get install libcouchbase2-libevent libcouchbase-dev