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 Open Media Library Platform Packages
 
 to update osx packages, checkout https://git.0x2620.org/platform_darwin.git
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+To build Linux packages you need:
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+    apt-get install python-pip pythoni2.7-dev libssl-dev libffi-dev
+    pip install -U pip
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