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| author | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2014-02-13 12:31:24 -0600 |
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| committer | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2014-02-13 12:31:24 -0600 |
| commit | de5a855ecd84d719b12cb374ff0caa70b75aa82f (patch) | |
| tree | 6fd1f3d6205afa681b5c64d656c98ce96a7f400e /docs | |
| parent | 3340adfca3abb1353fc14f1baab7db6f6ca7b6a6 (diff) | |
| parent | 2e15c7fce6ce478039d150b4d5442b51582e77b4 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #606 from chrisglass/installation-ubuntu
Added a docs section on Linux installation
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diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst index 7e7348e2..595ccc83 100644 --- a/docs/installation.rst +++ b/docs/installation.rst @@ -22,8 +22,31 @@ 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 +------------------------------ + +``cryptography`` should build very easily on Linux provided you have a C +compiler, headers for Python (if you're not using `pypy`), and headers for the +OpenSSL and `libffi` libraries available on your system. + +Debian and Ubuntu systems +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +For Debian and Ubuntu, the following command line will ensure the required +dependencies are installed: + +.. code-block:: console + + 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 + +.. code-block:: console + + python setup.py install + Using your own OpenSSL on 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. |