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| author | Chris Glass <tribaal@gmail.com> | 2014-02-13 11:46:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Chris Glass <tribaal@gmail.com> | 2014-02-13 11:46:49 +0100 |
| commit | f82d94f3d1c15e3b71528ba98c7e5ba4b54cc8ad (patch) | |
| tree | c600228c1e0b84510bb4a4f6d61503338a054235 | |
| parent | 87c4edbda9c838b721546dd9f6b9964b915127b5 (diff) | |
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Added Debian mention, extra missing packages
One tends to forget than not everyone has python-dev installed :)
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diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst index a2fc5b7c..28b311cb 100644 --- a/docs/installation.rst +++ b/docs/installation.rst @@ -22,17 +22,22 @@ to include the corresponding locations. For example: C:\> set INCLUDE=C:\OpenSSL-1.0.1f-64bit\include;%INCLUDE% C:\> pip install cryptography -Building cryptography on Linux ------------------------------- +Building cryptography on GNU/Linux +---------------------------------- + +``cryptography`` should build very easily on GNU/Linux provided you have a C +compiler and headers for Python and the OpenSSL and libffi libraries available +on your system. -``cryptography`` should build very easily on linux provided you have headers -for the OpenSSL and libffi available on your system. +Debian and Ubuntu systems +......................... -For Ubuntu, the following command line will ensure this is the case: +For Debian and Ubuntu, the following command line will ensure the required +dependencies are installed: .. code-block:: console - sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libffi-dev + sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev You should now be able to build and install cryptography with the usual @@ -40,8 +45,8 @@ You should now be able to build and install cryptography with the usual python setup.py install -Using your own OpenSSL on Linux -............................... +Using your own OpenSSL on GNU/Linux +................................... Python links to OpenSSL for its own purposes and this can sometimes cause problems when you wish to use a different version of OpenSSL with cryptography. |