Cannot build python tesseract on ubuntu 11.10 about python-tesseract HOT 7 CLOSED

I am having exactly the same problem . 

Btw if you insatll libleptonica from this repo, it work. :) 

I'm having the same issue. When you say "Btw if you insatll libleptonica from 
this repo, it work" which repo are you referring to? I don't see any 
libleptonica in "http://code.google.com/p/python-tesseract/downloads/list" 
which is the downloads for *this* project. Additionally I don't see any special 
libleptonica in the SVN repo of this project, so I'm at a loss for where you 
found the working install.

Thanks

when I make python setup.py install I get the following error

swig -python -c++ -I/usr/include/tesseract -I/usr/include 
-I/usr/include/leptonica -o tesseract_wrap.cpp tesseract.i
tesseract.i:11: Error: Unable to find 'publictypes.h'
tesseract.i:12: Error: Unable to find 'thresholder.h'
tesseract.i:13: Error: Unable to find 'baseapi.h'
error: command 'swig' failed with exit status 1

You install leptonica from within Ubuntu. Go to terminal and type, "sudo 
apt-get install libleptonica-dev"

I was able to get this to work today and I made sure to install the following 
dependencies:

sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool
sudo apt-get install libpng12-dev
sudo apt-get install libjpeg62-dev
sudo apt-get install libtiff4-dev
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

After downloading and extracting the tar ball I used the following commands:

./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Make sure to do the first command or make will not work. From there, I 
installed the language data and I am currently using the program. It was a bit 
of work, but worth it IMO.

Tesseract-ocr is now included in the download list
http://code.google.com/p/python-tesseract/downloads/list