Does the Quickstart / Installation Page Work on a new Ubuntu 16.04 VM?

[ttmc]

The current Quickstart / Installation page for the BigchainDB Python Driver only has one OS-level dependency installation:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libffi-dev

in Step 1. That really doesn't seem like enough, because the bigchaindb_driver package depends on the bigchaindb package, which needs a lot more OS-level dependencies, i.e. it needs:

sudo apt-get install g++ python3-dev libffi-dev build-essential libssl-dev

We should not assume they already have bigchaindb (BigchainDB Server) installed. Most people will never run BigchainDB Server.

To Do

• Test the existing Quickstart / Installation instructions for the Python Driver on a new Ubuntu 16.04 VM.
• Add any needed / missing OS-level dependencies to the Quickstart / Installation page. Re-name that step as "Step 1: OS-level dependencies". It doesn't have to go into the details of what each one is for. You can even cut the existing explanation of the libffi-dev package. It's too much information.

[muawiakh]

No, it does not. Requested a PR