“Could not run curl-config: [Errno 2] No such file or directory” when installing pycurl

could-not-run-curl-config-errno-2-no-such-file-or-directory-when-installing

sudo pip install pycurl

The line of code that throws Could not run curl-config: [Errno 2] No such file or directory” when installing pycurl on Linux, should inform the user as to remedy – a pre-requisite, rather than leaving them to test their google skills.

Error

Collecting pycurl
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e8/e4/0dbb8735407189f00b33d84122b9be52c790c7c3b25286826f4e1bdb7bde/pycurl-7.43.0.2.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "", line 1, in 
      File "/tmp/pip-install-x2CnFF/pycurl/setup.py", line 913, in 
        ext = get_extension(sys.argv, split_extension_source=split_extension_source)
      File "/tmp/pip-install-x2CnFF/pycurl/setup.py", line 582, in get_extension
        ext_config = ExtensionConfiguration(argv)
      File "/tmp/pip-install-x2CnFF/pycurl/setup.py", line 99, in __init__
        self.configure()
      File "/tmp/pip-install-x2CnFF/pycurl/setup.py", line 227, in configure_unix
        raise ConfigurationError(msg)
    __main__.ConfigurationError: Could not run curl-config: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-x2CnFF/pycurl/

Solution:

A page online is the remedy, and it could have sections like the following for Linux:

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

In Debian we saw that I also needed the following packages to fix this error:

sudo apt install libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev