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pip 19+ is now needed to install bigchaindb (#2645)
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Signed-off-by: Troy McConaghy <troy@bigchaindb.com>
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ttmc authored and eckelj committed May 26, 2019
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## Install BigchainDB Server

BigchainDB Server requires **Python 3.6+**, so make sure your system has it.

Install the required OS-level packages:

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# Ubuntu 16.04, and other Linux distros, may require other packages or more packages
```

BigchainDB Server requires [gevent](http://www.gevent.org/), and to install gevent, you must use pip 19 or later (as of 2019, because gevent now uses manylinux2010 wheels). Upgrade pip to the latest version:

```
sudo pip3 install -U pip
```

Now install the latest version of BigchainDB Server.
You can find the latest version by going
to the [BigchainDB project release history page on PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/BigchainDB/#history).
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