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Expand Up @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ To install the required dependencies on Ubuntu/Debian/Raspbian:

```shell
apt-get install python3-pip
apt-get install libbluetooth-dev
pip3 install pybluez
apt-get install libboost-python-dev
apt-get install libboost-thread-dev
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If for some reason the gattlib installation fails:

```shell
apt-get install pkg-config python3-dev
pip3 download gattlib
tar xvzf ./gattlib-0.20150805.tar.gz
cd gattlib-0.20150805/
sed -ie 's/boost_python-py34/boost_python-py35/' setup.py
sed -ie 's/boost_python-py34/boost_python-py36/' setup.py # "py36" might be "py37" (for example). Check "python3 --version"
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This can probably be made more generic through:

version=$(python -c 'import sys; v = sys.version_info; print(f"{v.major}{v.minor}")')
sed -ie "s/boost_python-py34/boost_python-py${version}/" setup.py

However I think that boost_python3 should also work, as it's symlinked on most of the systems I've seen so far.

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It's all seems a bit crazy. I was that close to giving up before I came across an obscure post mentioning boost_python3.

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This can probably be made more generic ...

Makes sense- good idea. It would need to be "version=$( python3 -c ...." on my system, because "python" gets you python 2.

apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
pip3 install .
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