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diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst index 7e7348e2..a2fc5b7c 100644 --- a/docs/installation.rst +++ b/docs/installation.rst @@ -22,8 +22,26 @@ 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 headers +for the OpenSSL and libffi available on your system. + +For Ubuntu, the following command line will ensure this is the case: + +.. code-block:: console + + sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libffi-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. |