I'm developing with Python on CentOS. Needed Python 2.7 for a certain project. Didn't want to mess with the existing Python 2.6 (64-bit) installation, so installed Python 2.7 (32-bit). Haven't had a problem up until now.
Now I need a new library: lxml. It's actually already installed in the default 2.6 installation, but I need it for Python 2.7. None of the existing installation instruction seem to work. Specifically, I can't use a package manager (for CentOS it's yum), because it is only updating things for the default 2.6 installation. And again, everything from yum is already complete because Python 2.6 already has lxml installed.
If I type in "pip install lxml" I get a ton of error messages but finally it says, "Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed?"
Okay, fine. So if I type in "STATIC_DEPS=true pip install lxml", it just times out and fails to download the prerequisites.
Any solution, especially sticking just to pip?