<html><body bgcolor="#ffffff"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Err: Python.h header files missing; install python-dev package.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div>Loading the development package for python (required by ngs_backbone, HTSeq, e.g.). Bio-Linux v. 6 missing python.h header files. The following installation command appears to fix this problem, q.v.:</span><div><font face="Verdana" size="2"></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">sudo apt-get install python-dev</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The installation was successful and ngs_backbone proceeded to behave (at least at the fastq clean-up stage). Tim Booth over at Bio-Linux provided this simple solution.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Just in case anyone runs into this problem (error will read '..cannot find python.h header files.')</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Best of luck~</span></div></body></html>