Worked fine for me (I had never used it before). Perhaps the problem is with your OS? Learning how to install dependencies should be one of the first things a p

Worked fine for me (I had never used it before). Perhaps the problem is with your OS? Learning how to install dependencies should be one of the first things a programmer learns. I don't think it's unreasonable to learn that a message like "Error: X requires this library! Failed to install" means you should go and install that library. Plus it can be frustrating when something comes with its own version of a certain library because it makes tracking down bugs more difficult. For example Python ships its own version of libffi (the library it uses to call C functions). I've had issues with this library before, and it turned out the Python devs hadn't bothered to update it in a long time, because it "worked", but it didn't for me, and the newer version worked fine. So I had to end up trying to rebuild Python from source with a more up-to-date version of libffi, which was a giant pain. It may be "easier" to make everything self-contained like that, but it causes headaches too. Maybe it would be better in those cases if the library were just packaged in the distro's package manager? (Or brew for Macs). That would allow for more complete dependency handling.