From 2d5f845e8d68df690e3d87213f1b8607902191fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey Lupersolsky Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:11:39 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Adds help for installing prerequisites on RHEL Certain prerequisites are not found by yum by default on RHEL. The yum command specified in the RHEL instructions for installing prerequisites fails to install python-pip and git-review. Adding a sentence directing readers to use the EPEL software repository which has the missing packages. Closes-Bug: 1392355 Change-Id: Ibcbe9ff9e5d8eeb9f2511915d67dc53ac1dc1b63 --- doc/source/dev/dev-quickstart.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/source/dev/dev-quickstart.rst b/doc/source/dev/dev-quickstart.rst index 6b307e419e..624c2d898d 100644 --- a/doc/source/dev/dev-quickstart.rst +++ b/doc/source/dev/dev-quickstart.rst @@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ Install prerequisites:: sudo easy_install nose sudo pip install virtualenv setuptools-git flake8 tox testrepository +If using RHEL and yum reports “No package python-pip available” and “No +package git-review available”, use the EPEL software repository. Instructions +can be found at ``_. + You may need to explicitly upgrade virtualenv if you've installed the one from your OS distribution and it is too old (tox will complain). You can upgrade it individually, if you need to::