commit 665f9d5473a5f35887b3417d45692a05249c3c33 Author: Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org Date: Sat Mar 11 15:15:42 2017 -0800

Note libffi-dev as a dependency in the faq

Hmmm, getting a new error on my netbook when I try to install pynacl. Unfortunately I can't be positive this is the package I need since apt no longer works on my netbook, but 90% sure it's this. --- docs/faq.rst | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index 50718be..59dacfd 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -66,12 +66,20 @@ Note that if cryptography installation fails with... compilation terminated. error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

-You need python-dev. For instance on Debian and Ubuntu you can install -cryptography with... +... or...

::

- % sudo apt-get install python-dev + No package 'libffi' found + c/_cffi_backend.c:15:17: fatal error: ffi.h: No such file or directory + compilation terminated. + +You need the python-dev and libffi-dev packages. For instance on Debian and +Ubuntu you can install these with... + +:: + + % sudo apt-get install python-dev libffi-dev % sudo pip install cryptography % sudo pip install pynacl