From 4d95e5b95929915ccebf0501d70dea8190483a40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "glolol@overdrivenetworks.com" <>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 18:17:05 -0700
Subject: doc: Mention installation differences between Python 2 and 3

Earlier, someone asked about a Python 3 program not working because the docs told them to install python-bs4, when in reality, python3-bs4 should've been used instead. This hopefully clears up the different package names and commands that should be used by Python 3 users.
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 doc/source/index.rst | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc')

diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
index 8258e97..2666522 100644
--- a/doc/source/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -166,12 +166,16 @@ Installing Beautiful Soup
 If you're using a recent version of Debian or Ubuntu Linux, you can
 install Beautiful Soup with the system package manager:
 
-:kbd:`$ apt-get install python-bs4`
+:kbd:`$ apt-get install python-bs4` (for Python 2)
+
+:kbd:`$ apt-get install python3-bs4` (for Python 3)
 
 Beautiful Soup 4 is published through PyPi, so if you can't install it
 with the system packager, you can install it with ``easy_install`` or
 ``pip``. The package name is ``beautifulsoup4``, and the same package
-works on Python 2 and Python 3.
+works on Python 2 and Python 3. Make sure you use the right version of
+``pip`` or ``easy_install`` for your Python version (these may be named
+``pip3`` and ``easy_install3`` respectively if you're using Python 3).
 
 :kbd:`$ easy_install beautifulsoup4`
 
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