Non-trivial set up in Ubuntu -- add section in README that explains how to fix common installation problems

colonelpanic8 / okcupyd

A Library that enables programmatic interaction with okcupid.com, using okcupid.com's private okcupid JSON API and html scraping when necessary.

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Non-trivial set up in Ubuntu -- add section in README that explains how to fix common installation problems #48

Open chrism2671 opened 9 years ago

chrism2671 commented 9 years ago

okcupyd worked perfectly for me in OSX Yosemite, installed via pip.

In Ubuntu 14.04 however, it's tricky. I've spent an hour or two fiddling with it and still no joy, with broken dependencies being the main issue.

Are there any suggestions for how best to install on Ubuntu?

Thanks! Chris.

chrism2671 commented 9 years ago

Oh, suddenly found the solution. I kept running into this bug (including in a clean install of Ubuntu), solution on that page works.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3373995/usr-bin-ld-cannot-find-lz

colonelpanic8 commented 9 years ago

I've actually encountered this issue before. It's really a problem with the installation of lxml, so I wasn't sure if it was appropriate to mention the issue in my readme, but I guess it can't hurt.