From: Peter Amstutz Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 17:06:08 +0000 (-0400) Subject: 15368: Add note about debian dependencies for installing from pip X-Git-Tag: 2.0.0~299^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/commitdiff_plain/b017da127fc3a1747e50f81b3f5d2fea62ba6c94 15368: Add note about debian dependencies for installing from pip Arvados-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Peter Amstutz --- diff --git a/doc/sdk/python/sdk-python.html.textile.liquid b/doc/sdk/python/sdk-python.html.textile.liquid index 9c0ec475b4..c8b2b67b11 100644 --- a/doc/sdk/python/sdk-python.html.textile.liquid +++ b/doc/sdk/python/sdk-python.html.textile.liquid @@ -24,7 +24,13 @@ h3. Option 1: Install with pip This installation method is recommended to make the SDK available for use in your own Python programs. It can coexist with the system-wide installation method from a distribution package (option 2, below). -Run @pip install arvados-python-client@ in an appropriate installation environment, such as a virtualenv. +Run @pip install arvados-python-client@ in an appropriate installation environment, such as a @virtualenv@. + +The SDK uses @pycurl@ which depends on the @libcurl@ C library. To build the module you may have to install additional packages. On Debian 9 this is: + +
+$ apt-get install git build-essential python3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl1.0-dev
+
If your version of @pip@ is 1.4 or newer, the @pip install@ command might give an error: "Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement arvados-python-client". If this happens, try @pip install --pre arvados-python-client@.