Skip to content

Docs: Update Linux build dependencies intro to mention package managers #1841

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
pranavchoudhary-tech wants to merge 2 commits into
base: main
Choose a base branch
from
+2 −3
Open

Docs: Update Linux build dependencies intro to mention package managers #1841

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
fe13b85
Docs: Update Linux build dependencies intro to mention package managers
pranavchoudhary-tech Jun 18, 2026
2465fe3
Docs: Reword Linux dependencies intro
pranavchoudhary-tech Jun 18, 2026
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
5 changes: 2 additions & 3 deletions getting-started/setup-building.rst
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -764,9 +764,8 @@ some of CPython's modules (for example, ``zlib``).

For Unix-based systems, we try to use system libraries whenever available.
This means optional components will only build if the relevant system headers
are available. The best way to obtain the appropriate headers will vary by
distribution, but the appropriate commands for some popular distributions
are below.
are available. The best way to obtain these headers varies by distribution,
but commands for some popular package managers are given below.

.. tab:: dnf

Expand Down
Loading