It took me one and an half day to get the Graphite working…

1. Make sure you have pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv installed.

• Manage your Python projects with virtualenv

2. Install the following packages.

sudo apt-get install python-dev pkg-config libcairo2-dev memcached

3. Install Python 2.7 with enable-shared.

env PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--enable-shared" pyenv install 2.7.8

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