2 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
index f19d17d24f..07d4bee2a3 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.rst
+++ b/AUTHORS.rst
@@ -51,3 +51,6 @@ Steven Hammerton <steven.hammerton at openmarket.com>
Mads Robin Christensen <mads at v42 dot dk>
* CentOS 7 installation instructions.
+
+Florent Violleau <floviolleau at gmail dot com>
+ * Add Raspberry Pi installation instructions and general troubleshooting items
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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 297e72f1ae..39a338c790 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -125,6 +125,15 @@ Installing prerequisites on Mac OS X::
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install virtualenv
+Installing prerequisites on Raspbian::
+
+ sudo apt-get install build-essential python2.7-dev libffi-dev \
+ python-pip python-setuptools sqlite3 \
+ libssl-dev python-virtualenv libjpeg-dev
+ sudo pip install --upgrade pip
+ sudo pip install --upgrade ndg-httpsclient
+ sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv
+
To install the synapse homeserver run::
virtualenv -p python2.7 ~/.synapse
@@ -310,6 +319,18 @@ may need to manually upgrade it::
sudo pip install --upgrade pip
+Installing may fail with ``Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pymacaroons-pynacl (from matrix-synapse==0.12.0)``.
+You can fix this by manually upgrading pip and virtualenv::
+
+ sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv
+
+You can next rerun ``virtualenv -p python2.7 synapse`` to update the virtual env.
+
+Installing may fail during installing virtualenv with ``InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.``
+You can fix this by manually installing ndg-httpsclient::
+
+ pip install --upgrade ndg-httpsclient
+
Installing may fail with ``mock requires setuptools>=17.1. Aborting installation``.
You can fix this by upgrading setuptools::
@@ -544,4 +565,4 @@ sphinxcontrib-napoleon::
Building internal API documentation::
python setup.py build_sphinx
-
+
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