How to install python-config on Alpine Linux

I recommend to use Python 3.x since Python 2.x is deprecated!

Installing python-config for Python 3.x

The python3-dev apk package provides /usr/bin/python3-config, so you’ll have to symlink that to /usr/bin/python-config:

apk update
apk add python3-dev
ln -sf /usr/bin/python3-config /usr/bin/python-config

Installing python-config for Python 2.x

Just install python2-dev, which installs/usr/bin/python-config

apk update
apk add python2-dev