update docs with note about ssl installation reqs

sslivkoff · sslivkoff · commit a0302fe16c0a · 2024-01-28T21:31:16.000-08:00
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ These steps can be performed automatically using the interactive [`mesc`](./cli)
 1. Install: `cargo install mesc_cli`
 2. Perform interactive setup: `mesc setup`
 
+Installing the `mesc` cli on some linux distributions may require installing ssl libraries (e.g. `sudo apt-get install pkg-config libssl-dev` on ubunutu)
+
 ## Tutorial
 
 Below is a brief tutorial on MESC. For more detail, see the MESC [Specification](./SPECIFICATION.md) and [Documentation](https://paradigmxyz.github.io/mesc). 
diff --git a/docs/src/quickstart.md b/docs/src/quickstart.md
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ You can create a `mesc.json` by one of two ways:
 
 The structure of the config must follow the MESC [specification](https://github.com/paradigmxyz/mesc/blob/main/SPECIFICATION.md).
 
+Installing the `mesc` cli on some linux distributions may require installing ssl libraries (e.g. `sudo apt-get install pkg-config libssl-dev` on ubunutu)
+
 ## Setting environment variables
 
 The typical way to set environment variables is in your shell configuration files: `~/.bashrc`, `~.profile`, and/or `~/.bash_profile`. Including this line in those files will enable MESC:
