From 18a2a773c0fa02c38640472f1f2713adaa4bed3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Loewenherz Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:23:36 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] add note re: prequisite packages with pip install (#8373) --- source/_faq/pip3.markdown | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/source/_faq/pip3.markdown b/source/_faq/pip3.markdown index 9b4fe56e029..ff61d2fdc46 100644 --- a/source/_faq/pip3.markdown +++ b/source/_faq/pip3.markdown @@ -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 +```