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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
+
+ $ pip install cryptography
+
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.