* General development tools including a supported C compiler such as gcc (version 4.9+) or clang (version 3.4+).
* For RHEL/Fedora systems these can be installed using ``dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"``
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* For Ubuntu/Debian systems these can be installed using ``apt install build-essential``
+ * For Alpine Linux, ``apk add gcc libc-dev bsd-compat-headers libexecinfo-dev``
* Python 3.5 or later.
* Meson (version 0.49.2+) and ninja
* ``meson`` & ``ninja-build`` packages in most Linux distributions
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* If the packaged version is below the minimum version, the latest versions
can be installed from Python's "pip" repository: ``pip3 install meson ninja``
* ``pyelftools`` (version 0.22+)
* For Fedora systems it can be installed using ``dnf install python-pyelftools``
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* For RHEL/CentOS systems it can be installed using ``pip3 install pyelftools``
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* For Ubuntu/Debian it can be installed using ``apt install python3-pyelftools``
+ * For Alpine Linux, ``apk add py3-elftools``
* Library for handling NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access).
* ``numactl-devel`` in RHEL/Fedora;
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* ``libnuma-dev`` in Debian/Ubuntu;
+ * ``numactl-dev`` in Alpine Linux
.. note::