Installation > Ubuntu > Install system dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essentialpython-devlibagg-dev libpotrace-dev pkg-config

Seems a bit general considering a potential side-effect now a days:

    Note, selecting 'python-dev-is-python2' instead of 'python-dev'
    ...
    The following additional packages will be installed:
      libpython2-dev libpython2.7 libpython2.7-dev python-is-python2 python2-dev
      python2.7-dev
    The following packages will be REMOVED:
      python-dev-is-python3 python-is-python3

The following packages will be REMOVED: python-dev-is-python3 python-is-python3 Erm ... No thanks.

(Successfully installed potrace-0.3 - after using "python-dev-is-python3" instead of just "python-dev". Although in my case i only needed "libagg-dev"+ "libpotrace-dev" to be installed. ... Phew ...)

print(potrace.__version__)

0.2

Hmm.

flupke / pypotrace

Installation > Ubuntu > Install system dependencies: -- python-dev. #45