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authorBrendan Abolivier <babolivier@matrix.org>2019-11-26 17:53:57 +0000
committerBrendan Abolivier <babolivier@matrix.org>2019-11-26 17:53:57 +0000
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 System requirements:
 
 - POSIX-compliant system (tested on Linux & OS X)
-- Python 3.5, 3.6, or 3.7
+- Python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 or 3.8.
 - At least 1GB of free RAM if you want to join large public rooms like #matrix:matrix.org
 
 Synapse is written in Python but some of the libraries it uses are written in
@@ -133,9 +133,9 @@ sudo yum install libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel libzip-devel freetype-devel \
 sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
 ```
 
-#### Mac OS X
+#### macOS
 
-Installing prerequisites on Mac OS X:
+Installing prerequisites on macOS:
 
 ```
 xcode-select --install
@@ -144,6 +144,14 @@ sudo pip install virtualenv
 brew install pkg-config libffi
 ```
 
+On macOS Catalina (10.15) you may need to explicitly install OpenSSL
+via brew and inform `pip` about it so that `psycopg2` builds:
+
+```
+brew install openssl@1.1
+export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/Cellar/openssl\@1.1/1.1.1d/lib/
+```
+
 #### OpenSUSE
 
 Installing prerequisites on openSUSE: