diff --git a/source/_faq/pip3.markdown b/source/_faq/pip3.markdown
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--- a/source/_faq/pip3.markdown
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@@ -18,4 +18,10 @@ If you are able to successfully run `python3 --version` but not `pip3`, install
 $ python3 -m pip install homeassistant
 ```
 
-On a Debian system, you can also install python3 by `sudo apt-get install python3`d and pip3 by `sudo apt-get install python3-pip`.
+On a Debian system, you can also install python3 by `sudo apt-get install python3` and pip3 by `sudo apt-get install python3-pip`.
+
+If you run into errors during installation, check that you've installed all the necessary prerequisite packages, which include `python3-dev`, `libffi-dev`, and `libssl-dev`. On a Debian-based system, you can install these via `apt-get`:
+
+```bash
+$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev
+```