From 45e63b0d273387959f847bee7699b0c985a57b1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: uDude Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 07:09:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Tell people they need opensslv.h and cffi.h in order to use (#10938) * Tell people they need opensslv.h and cffi.h in order to use pip install homeassistant (at least on armv7/armhf). * :pencil2: Tweaks Co-authored-by: null Co-authored-by: Franck Nijhof --- source/_docs/installation/virtualenv.markdown | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/source/_docs/installation/virtualenv.markdown b/source/_docs/installation/virtualenv.markdown index c3b46fdb6c2..fe1f5613757 100644 --- a/source/_docs/installation/virtualenv.markdown +++ b/source/_docs/installation/virtualenv.markdown @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ It's recommended when installing Python packages that you use a [virtual environ This is a generic guide for running Home Assistant under Python. We recommend to use [our recommended installation guides](/docs/installation/#recommended). The steps below may be shorter but some users find difficulty when applying updates and may run into issues. +Before you begin the guide below, ensure that you have a *so-called standard* build environment that includes things like `make`, `gcc`, `python3`, including Python 3 `setuptools` and `pip` modules. Less obvious is the need to install `openssl-dev` (for opensslv.h) and `libffi-dev` (for cffi.h) for things to build later on. + {% comment %}