Author: Matti Picus <[email protected]>
Branch: 
Changeset: r87912:9c7523abf0d0
Date: 2016-10-22 22:39 +0300
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/9c7523abf0d0/

Log:    describe using a packaged PyPy, fixes issue #2424

diff --git a/pypy/doc/install.rst b/pypy/doc/install.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/install.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/install.rst
@@ -1,8 +1,17 @@
 Downloading and Installing PyPy
 ===============================
 
+Using a packaged PyPy
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Some Linux distributions provide a pypy package. Note that in order to
+install additional modules that require compilation, you may need to install
+additional packages such as pypy-dev. This will manifest as an error about
+"missing Python.h". Distributions do not as of yet supply many pypy-ready
+packages, if you require additionall modules we recommend creating a virtualenv
+and using pip. 
+
 .. _prebuilt-pypy:
-
 Download a pre-built PyPy
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -38,6 +47,9 @@
 and not move the binary there, else PyPy would not be able to find its
 library.
 
+Installing more modules
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
 If you want to install 3rd party libraries, the most convenient way is
 to install pip_ using ensurepip_ (unless you want to install virtualenv as 
 explained below; then you can directly use pip inside virtualenvs):
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