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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??

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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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+1 and also you can't do yum install epel-release jq -y. the epel repository has to be installed first
This should be the number one answer. Easy manageable with the yum package manager for updates
Fwiw, with yum I got version 1.3 because older CentOS, but wanted some of the newer functions, so I downloaded the binary jq-1.6 and it seems to work fine under CentOS 6, also. (I am not good at yum and related things..)
Using this method, I get a very long failure message when I run yum install jq. It ends with: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel/x86_64. Please verify its path and try again
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This is how I installed it on CentOS 7:

wget https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-1.5/jq-linux64 -O jq chmod +x jq

Then 

mv jq /usr/local/bin
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Please use yum whenever possible.
@CodeMed yum wasn't happening for either the OP or me at the time.
jq still isn't available via yum as of today.
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Install pre-req & install jq

$ sudo yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm $ sudo yum install jq -y

more usage info.. https://medium.com/@gchandra/install-jq-on-centos-7-459dd650baa3

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