From 4cc36ed15530f890207a4f905be74fa4fa454bcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joel Sherrill Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:03:46 -0500 Subject: user/hosts/posix.rst: Improve Ubuntu python 2 devel package instructions --- user/hosts/posix.rst | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'user') diff --git a/user/hosts/posix.rst b/user/hosts/posix.rst index 24e811f..55378f3 100644 --- a/user/hosts/posix.rst +++ b/user/hosts/posix.rst @@ -131,10 +131,16 @@ Xubuntu. A minimal installation was used and the following packages installed: Note that in previous versions of Ubuntu, the package libpython-dev was python2.7-dev. The name of packages changes over time. You need the -package with Python development libraries for C/C++ programs. +package with Python development libraries for C/C++ programs. The following +is needed for recent versions: -It is likely necessary that you will have to enable the Ubuntu Source Repositories. -Users have suggested the following web pages which have instructions: +.. code-block:: none + + $ sudo apt-get install python-dev + +It is likely necessary that you will have to enable the Ubuntu Source +Repositories. Users have suggested the following web pages which have +instructions: * https://askubuntu.com/questions/158871/how-do-i-enable-the-source-code-repositories/158872 * https://askubuntu.com/questions/496549/error-you-must-put-some-source-uris-in-your-sources-list -- cgit v1.2.3