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@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ command:
$ sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev
+This command will install both the Python interpreter and its development
+header files. Note that the headers are required by some (optional) C
+extensions in software depended upon by Pyramid, not by Pyramid itself.
+
Once these steps are performed, the Python interpreter will usually be
invokable via ``python2.7`` from a shell prompt.