mistercrunch commented on a change in pull request #7386: Updating 
contributing/install docs
URL: 
https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/pull/7386#discussion_r279587888
 
 

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 File path: CONTRIBUTING.md
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 @@ -293,20 +293,58 @@ python setup.py build_sphinx
 
 ### Flask server
 
-Make sure your machine meets the [OS 
dependencies](https://superset.incubator.apache.org/installation.html#os-dependencies)
 before following these steps.
+#### OS Dependencies
+
+Make sure your machine meets the [OS 
dependencies](https://superset.incubator.apache.org/installation.html#os-dependencies)
 before following these steps. 
+
+In addition you will need to install the mysql client to get mysql_config, 
which is required by mysqlclient in requirements-dev.txt.
+
+For Debian/Ubuntu:
+
+```bash
+sudo apt-get install -y libmysqlclient-dev
+```
+
+For OS X via brew:
+
+```bash
+brew install mysql-client
+echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/mysql-client/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
+source ~/.bash_profile
+```
+
+Developers should use a virtualenv. Anaconda Python users should make sure 
that conda installs the virtualenv package, otherwise conda packages won't play 
well with packages installed by pip. In addition, Anaconda Python installs its 
own version of certifi that must be removed minus dependencies for 
requirements.txt's certifi to install.
+
+```bash
+# Conda modified virtualenv on conda-forge to work with pip
+conda install --force-reinstall -y virtualenv
+
+# Remove certifi that came with the conda env, install of requirements.txt 
will restore
+conda remove certifi --force
+```
+
+For other Python's:
+
+```
+# Otherwise pip is fine
+pip install virtualenv
+```
+
+Then proceed with:
 
 ```bash
 # Create a virtual environemnt and activate it (recommended)
-virtualenv -p python3 venv # setup a python3.6 virtualenv
+virtualenv -p python3 venv # setup a python3.6 virtualenv (use a precise path 
to Python for Anaconda)
 source venv/bin/activate
 
 # Install external dependencies
 pip install -r requirements.txt
 pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
+
 # Install Superset in editable (development) mode
 pip install -e .
 
-# Create an admin user
+# Create an admin user in the app sqlite DB at ~/.superset/superset.db
 
 Review comment:
   I'd say `# Create an admin user in your metadata database`, `sqlite DB at 
~/.superset/superset.db` is the default value for that, but people may be using 
postgres or mysql locally (I do)

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