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Expand Up @@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ which details your dependencies. See our guide on :ref:`guides/reproducible-buil
You can also set your project documentation to install your project itself
as a dependency.

Additionally, your build may depend on extensions that require external,
non-Python libraries to be installed. If you are using a :ref:`configuration
file <config-file>` you can add libraries to the Ubuntu-based builder with
``apt``.
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This would be great as a link to the section in config-file for apt install configuration option. It should be addressable using the auto section reference syntax


If your project or its dependencies rely on C libraries,
see :ref:`faq:I get import errors on libraries that depend on C modules`.

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- python=3.9
- scipy
...

.. _Anaconda Project: https://anaconda-project.readthedocs.io/en/latest/


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