updated install instruction to include lxml to avoid using non matching system version

2026-03-09 09:01:47 +01:00
parent f72f6ff3b9
commit 7afb71db36
1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -123,7 +123,12 @@ managers), i.e:
   $ . venv/bin/activate
   (venv) $ git clone https://github.com/gryf/ebook-converter
   (venv) $ cd ebook-converter
-   (venv) $ pip install .
+   (venv) $ pip install --no-binary lxml .
+
+Note: the ``--no-binary lxml`` flag is required to ensure ``lxml`` is compiled
+against the same system ``libxml2`` as ``html5-parser``. Without it, pip may
+install a pre-built ``lxml`` wheel bundling a different ``libxml2`` version,
+which causes a ``RuntimeError``.

 Simple as that. And from now on, you can issue converter: