From eecdc07c686f4a6f6ede2cf23e3c90b64380a7d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Damien Elmes Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 08:49:29 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] add some Python source deps --- docs/linux.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/linux.md b/docs/linux.md index 3a7ea5c1a..b2a9ceb4a 100644 --- a/docs/linux.md +++ b/docs/linux.md @@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ immediately to the next section. If Python 3.8 is not available in your distro, you can download it from python.org, compile it, and install it in /usr/local. +If you're on a basic Debian install, make sure you have the following installed +before building Python: + +gcc g++ make libsqlite3-dev libreadline-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libffi-dev + Bazel does not look in /usr/local by default. If you've installed Python somewhere other than /usr/bin, you'll need to put the following into a file called user.bazelrc at the top of this repo before proceeding: