Error installing ffvideo python package

Question

I’m working with Raspberry Pi with the Raspbian system. I need to install the ffvideo package, but when I try to install it, I get this:

error: command 'arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc' failed with exit status 1

Cleaning up...
Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/tmp/pip-build-y9gXBT/ffvideo/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), file, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-SMHZg9-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-y9gXBT/ffvideo
Storing debug log for failure in /root/.pip/pip.logk

Could someone help me with this?

Answer 1

It seems that this error is common when the python-dev package is not installed or with the correct version.

If your version of Raspbian is jessie, try installing the following on the command line:

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install -t jessie python-dev

If not, try replacing "jessie" with the corresponding version.