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@@ -31,13 +31,13 @@ BigchainDB Server has some OS-level dependencies. In particular, you need to ins
 On Ubuntu 14.04, we found that the following was enough:
 ```text
 $ sudo apt-get update
-$ sudo apt-get install libffi-dev g++ libssl-dev python3-dev
+$ sudo apt-get install g++ python3-dev
 ```
 
 On Fedora 23, we found that the following was enough (tested in February 2015):
 ```text
 $ sudo dnf update
-$ sudo dnf install libffi-devel gcc-c++ redhat-rpm-config python3-devel openssl-devel
+$ sudo dnf install gcc-c++ redhat-rpm-config python3-devel
 ```
 
 (If you're using a version of Fedora before version 22, you may have to use `yum` instead of `dnf`.)