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diff --git a/sites/www/installing.rst b/sites/www/installing.rst index f7dd8594..d6edbd5a 100644 --- a/sites/www/installing.rst +++ b/sites/www/installing.rst @@ -61,13 +61,15 @@ C-extension. C extension ----------- -Users on **Unix-based platforms** such as Ubuntu or Mac OS X will need the -traditional C build toolchain installed (e.g. Developer Tools / XCode Tools on -the Mac, or the ``build-essential`` package on Ubuntu or Debian Linux --- basically, anything with ``gcc``, ``make`` and so forth) as well as the -Python development libraries, often named ``python-dev`` or similar, OpenSSL -headers, often named ``libssl-dev``, and libffi development libraries, often -named ``libffi-dev``. +Unless you are installing from a precompiled source such as a Debian apt +repository or RedHat RPM,, you will also need the ability to build Python +C-based modules from source in order to install Cryptography. Users on **Unix- +based platforms** such as Ubuntu or Mac OS X will need the traditional C build +toolchain installed (e.g. Developer Tools / XCode Tools on the Mac, or the +``build-essential`` package on Ubuntu or Debian Linux -- basically, anything +with ``gcc``, ``make`` and so forth) as well as the Python development +libraries, often named ``python-dev`` or similar, OpenSSL headers, often named +``libssl-dev``, and libffi development libraries, often named ``libffi-dev``. For **Windows** users we recommend using the most recent version of ``pip``, Cryptography has binary wheels on PyPI, which remove the need for having a C |