# \[Resolved\] Installing cert-verifier
**URL:** https://community.blockcerts.org/t/resolved-installing-cert-verifier/1489
**Category:** Technical
**Created:** [November 14, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.blockcerts.org/t/resolved-installing-cert-verifier/1489 "2018-11-14T14:09:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@luvimperfection](https://community.blockcerts.org/u/luvimperfection)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.blockcerts.org/t/resolved-installing-cert-verifier/1489/1 "2018-11-14T14:09:03Z")
Hi, everyone. I’m a newbie here.
I was following this tutorial…
> **[GitHub - blockchain-certificates/cert-verifier: Python library for verifying...](https://github.com/blockchain-certificates/cert-verifier)**
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> Python library for verifying Blockcerts. Contribute to blockchain-certificates/cert-verifier development by creating an account on GitHub.
and I’m stuck while running
> pip install .
I even did
> pip3 install .
but this was no use too…
I’m a newbie to blockchain… could someone please help me?
(By the way, I have experience with python, java, and (very basic) linux but I have no experience with wallets.)
**oh, by the way… self introduction**
I am an engineering student in South Korea,
and I have faith in Blockchain that it could give transparency to many fields, especially education
I want to make a blockcert certificate for my university’s internal usage, maybe starting from some small certificates for vacational programs and camps for highschoolers…
BUT I’M STUCK 😢 please help me…
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### Author:  [@lparker](https://community.blockcerts.org/u/lparker)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.blockcerts.org/t/resolved-installing-cert-verifier/1489/2 "2018-11-20T15:23:34Z")
I’m not a Mac user, so I’m afraid I can’t give you too much detailed technical assistance with anything specific to that environment, but I asked someone who is. It sounds like there are occasional issues with scrypt on Mac, which _may or may not_ help you out, but here’s the quick-and-dirty note on the subject: [https://github.com/blockchain-certificates/cert-issuer#mac-scrypt-problems](https://github.com/blockchain-certificates/cert-issuer#mac-scrypt-problems)
Note that this is for cert-issuer and not cert-verifier, but they are both Python apps with similar requirements. Might help!
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### Author:  [@aronning](https://community.blockcerts.org/u/aronning)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2018, 3:47am UTC](https://community.blockcerts.org/t/resolved-installing-cert-verifier/1489/3 "2018-11-21T03:47:09Z")
I’m a mac user and have had problems before running some of the blockcerts python projects on my local machine. For me, the solution was to run them in a virtual environment.
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Try to give that a try, and run `pip install .` after doing the step: `source ./venv/bin/activate`
Just did it fresh on my machine and it worked, so it doesn’t appear that there’s any python dependency hell going on, which sometimes happens.
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### Author:  [@luvimperfection](https://community.blockcerts.org/u/luvimperfection)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2018, 3:31am UTC](https://community.blockcerts.org/t/resolved-installing-cert-verifier/1489/4 "2018-12-04T03:31:10Z")
Hi aronning 😄
Thank you for your help and sorry for late reply - I was busy doing some other stuff
And yesterday, thanks to your help, I fixed the bug!
I activated my virtualenv, used sudo pip, updated xcode command line tools, and these three led to success 😆