List Python-dev As Install_requires In Setup.py

Is there a way to tell python in the setup.py file that 'python-dev' (which cannot be installed with pip because is a OS package) is necessary and therefore should be installed? Ho

Solution 1:

No. For one thing, the python-dev package is specific to Debian-like distributions; there is no guarantee that other distributions will have a package with the same name that fulfills the desired role. For another, the user installing your Python package may have permission to install Python modules (e.g., in a virtualenv or user-specific directory) but not permission to install system packages.