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authorCharles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com>2018-02-28 19:05:12 -0700
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Merge pull request #10248 from agurusa/installation_notes
DOC: Add installation notes for Linux users
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@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ To perform an inplace build that can be run from the source folder run::
python setup.py build_ext --inplace -j 4
+Note that the ``python`` command here is the system default Python, generally
+python 2, the ``python3`` command may be needed to install on python 3.
+See `Requirements for Installing Packages <https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/installing-packages/>`_
+for more details.
+
The number of build jobs can also be specified via the environment variable
NPY_NUM_BUILD_JOBS.