Linux Installation

When installing from source (ie Cheetah*.tar.gz) on Linux you will need to install dependencies first. Using your package manager search for "python development", under Ubuntu 7.10 the package you will need to install is python-dev or python2.5-dev. If you try installing without the development package you will probably see early in the output:

error: Python.h: No such file or directory.

Oliver Savage, 12 2007