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I am making a package that depends on backports.lzma. So I have something like this on my setup.py:

    install_requires=[
        "enum34", "hashlib", "backports.lzma",
        "termcolor", "xmltodict"
        ],

During my package installation ran with python setup.py install, I will get this error if liblzma-dev is not properly installed: 

This is backports.lzma version 0.0.3
backports/lzma/_lzmamodule.c:115:18: fatal error: lzma.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

The final user will hardly understand the cause of the error.

Is it possible to automatically check for third party software dependencies and prompt the user to install these dependencies?

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  • A lot of scripts I installed via `pip` collected necessary packages first, so it's possible. But don't know how... – linusg May 08 '16 at 19:37

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