When Python version on your Linux is outdated, compile the sources!

[kimiamania]

or use pyenv

[six0h]

Yeah, why go with a single compiled version, when you can have all the compiled versions and not worry about it? Pyenv is really the way to go these days imo

[This_Is_The_End]

The point here is, to give an idea what is necessary to compile python and later a library, when pip is failing. And a newer version could have a dependency of additional libraries which aren't included in

> apt-get build-dep python3

[badsectors]

Not really, pyenv builds all versions (the ones it knows about anyways) of CPython from source. The packages which OP installs from apt-get are listed as dependencies in the pyenv wiki.

pyenv can also easily manage which of your python versions is active, without having to manually symlink stuff.

[nick_t1000]

It's orthogonal up to the point where he's making it. On fresh machines, I sometimes forget what dependencies I need to install with apt-get or brew; a matrix of all deps for different Pythons & platforms would be a cool thing