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Expand Up @@ -138,7 +138,14 @@ To fetch all dependencies and Clang, enter the following commands on Ubuntu:
sudo apt install libpng-dev libjpeg-dev

# Install required Python packages
sudo apt install libpython3-dev python3-distutils
sudo apt install libpython3-dev python3-setuptools

.. note::

Since Ubuntu 24.04 with python 3.12 python3-distutils has been deprecated,
see `PEP632 <https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/>`_ for details.
`setuptools`, as described in the `documentation <https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/distutils.html>`_
is an alternative even if the script itself only imports `distutils`.

Additional packages are required to run the included test suite or to generate
HTML documentation (see :ref:`Developer guide <sec-writing-documentation>`). If those are
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