compilation terminated. ********************************************************************************* Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in l

compilation terminated. ********************************************************************************* Could not find function xmlCheckVersion in library libxml2. Is libxml2 installed? ********************************************************************************* error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1 ---------------------------------------- Cleaning up... Command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_test/lxml/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-QEyvN6-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_test/lxml Storing debug log for failure in /home/test/.pip/pip.log There is some stuff above in the log, but the nothing about build-essentials. And a new dev would likely have to hit google/stackoverflow.