Changeset 4bb1288 in trunk

Timestamp:

2015-07-29T00:47:09Z (10 years ago)

Author:

Brian Warner <warner@…>

Branches:

master

Children:

dc7297d

Parents:

06c190e

git-author:

Brian Warner <warner@…> (2015-06-15 04:21:22)

git-committer:

Brian Warner <warner@…> (2015-07-29 00:47:09)

Message:

quickstart: Mention python-dev package for Python.h

Closes ticket:2328.

File:

• docs/quickstart.rst (modified) (1 diff)

docs/quickstart.rst ¶

@@ -62 +62 @@
 first time you set up Tahoe-LAFS on a particular installation of Windows.
 
+If you see an error like ``fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory``
+while compiling the dependencies, you need the Python development headers. If
+you are on a Debian or Ubuntu system, you can install them with ``sudo
+apt-get install python-dev``. On RedHat/Fedora, install ``python-devel``.
+
 Run "``bin/tahoe --version``" (on Windows, "``bin\tahoe --version``") to
 verify that the executable tool prints out the right version number after