Merge pull request #532 from floviolleau/floviolleau/documentation

Update documentation

AUTHORS.rst

@@ -51,3 +51,6 @@ Steven Hammerton <steven.hammerton at openmarket.com>
 
 Mads Robin Christensen <mads at v42 dot dk>
  * CentOS 7 installation instructions.
+
+Florent Violleau <floviolleau at gmail dot com>
+ * Add Raspberry Pi installation instructions and general troubleshooting items

README.rst

@@ -125,6 +125,15 @@ Installing prerequisites on Mac OS X::
     sudo easy_install pip
     sudo pip install virtualenv
 
+Installing prerequisites on Raspbian::
+
+    sudo apt-get install build-essential python2.7-dev libffi-dev \
+                         python-pip python-setuptools sqlite3 \
+                         libssl-dev python-virtualenv libjpeg-dev
+    sudo pip install --upgrade pip
+    sudo pip install --upgrade ndg-httpsclient
+    sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv
+
 To install the synapse homeserver run::
 
     virtualenv -p python2.7 ~/.synapse
@@ -310,6 +319,18 @@ may need to manually upgrade it::
 
     sudo pip install --upgrade pip
 
+Installing may fail with ``Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pymacaroons-pynacl (from matrix-synapse==0.12.0)``.
+You can fix this by manually upgrading pip and virtualenv::
+
+    sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv
+
+You can next rerun ``virtualenv -p python2.7 synapse`` to update the virtual env.
+
+Installing may fail during installing virtualenv with ``InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.``
+You can fix this  by manually installing ndg-httpsclient::
+
+    pip install --upgrade ndg-httpsclient
+
 Installing may fail with ``mock requires setuptools>=17.1. Aborting installation``.
 You can fix this by upgrading setuptools::