Merge pull request #5814 from sreecha/grpc_fixit

DocFixit: Add more troubleshooting details
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Jan Tattermusch 9 years ago
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      src/python/grpcio/README.rst

@ -50,10 +50,43 @@ Troubleshooting
Help, I ... Help, I ...
* **... see a** :code:`pkg_resources.VersionConflict` **when I try to install * **... see a** :code:`pkg_resources.VersionConflict` **when I try to install
grpc!** grpc**
This is likely because :code:`pip` doesn't own the offending dependency, This is likely because :code:`pip` doesn't own the offending dependency,
which in turn is likely because your operating system's package manager owns which in turn is likely because your operating system's package manager owns
it. You'll need to force the installation of the dependency: it. You'll need to force the installation of the dependency:
:code:`pip install --ignore-installed $OFFENDING_DEPENDENCY` :code:`pip install --ignore-installed $OFFENDING_DEPENDENCY`
For example, if you get an error like the following:
::
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
...
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 509, in find
raise VersionConflict(dist, req)
pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (six 1.8.0 (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages), Requirement.parse('six>=1.10'))
You can fix it by doing:
::
sudo pip install --ignore-installed six
* **... see the following error on some platforms**
::
/tmp/pip-build-U8pSsr/cython/Cython/Plex/Scanners.c:4:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
#include "Python.h"
^
compilation terminated.
You can fix it by installing `python-dev` package. i.e
::
sudo apt-get install python-dev

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