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    Installing GDAL in a Python virtual environment

Get gdal development libraries:
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev

Create and activate a virtual environment:
$ virtualenv gdalenv
$ source gdal/bin/activate

Download GDAL:
(gdalenv) $ pip install --no-install GDAL

Specify where the headers are:
(gdalenv) $ cd /path/to/gdalenv/build/GDAL
(gdalenv) $ python setup.py build_ext --include-dirs=/usr/include/gdal/

Install GDAL:
(gdalenv) $ pip install --no-download GDAL

Done.

Source: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/28966/python-gdal-package-missing-header-file-when-installing-via-pip