Installing pyspider - "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1

Question

I'm trying to install pyspider on Debian GNU/Linux 9. Tried installing with pip and pip3, checked libevent-dev, libpython-dev, python-dev, distribute, ez_setup, and I still get the following message from pip/pip3 install pyspider:

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in tmp/pip-build-<randomcharacters>/pycurl/

Right above that error message, it says this:

__main__.ConfigurationError: Could not run curl-config: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'curl-config'

Any ideas?

Answer 1

pyspider requires pycurl which in turn requires libcurl . So install libcurl first:

apt install libcurl4 libcurl4-openssl-dev