From 54d144bb75421a39552886878c07066663d2894f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bkmartinjr <bruce@chanzuckerberg.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:56:03 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] add build dependencies for igraph and louvain

---
 docs/posts/install.md | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/posts/install.md b/docs/posts/install.md
index 7aeeae86..204ba2b9 100644
--- a/docs/posts/install.md
+++ b/docs/posts/install.md
@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ _Note: if the aforementioned optional `prepare` package installation fails, you
 pip install scanpy>=1.3.7 python-igraph louvain>=0.6
 ```
 
+_On various Linux platforms, you may also need to install build dependencies first:_
+
+```
+sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev
+pip install scanpy>=1.3.7 python-igraph louvain>=0.6
+```
+
 If you already have `cellxgene` installed, you can update to the most recent version by running:
 
 ```