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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. |