Most of the time these are dependency-issues. You need to install a package called python-dev. This package includes header files, a static library and development tools for building Python modules, extending the http://net-informations.com/python/iq/default.htmPython interpreter or embedding Python in applications. When encountering this error please note before the error it may say you are missing a package or header file — you should find those and install them and verify if it works

For Python 2.x use:

$ sudo apt-get install python-dev

$ sudo apt-get install python3.x-dev