Facing issue while installing jq in centos

Question

While installing jq on centos, I am experiencing an issue. I have run the following commands:

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install autoconf automake libtool python

after that I have used pip install jq and I was facing error like this:

jq.c:8:22: fatal error: pyconfig.h: No such file or directory
#include "pyconfig.h"
                     ^
compilation terminated.
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

----------------------------------------
Command "/usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-akuaZu/jq/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read                                                                                        ().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" 
instal --record /tmp/pip-04CW9h-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally  
-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-akuaZu/jq/

Can anyone help me??

Answer 1

Just in case if someone is looking for a different solution.

This is how I installed in Cent OS 7 and it worked. Ensure you have sudo privilege.

Installer solution

yum install epel-release -y
yum install jq -y
jq --version

output was jq-1.5

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