# Python package requires fortran compilers

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**Created:** [August 5, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/python-package-requires-fortran-compilers/10273 "2021-08-05T16:01:22Z")\
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You’ll want to use `apt.txt` to get the compiler. See about the `apt.txt` configuration file [here](https://mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using/config_files.html#apt-txt-install-packages-with-apt-get).

I have binderized examples that get `gfortran` that way:

- [here](https://github.com/fomightez/dataframe2img)
- [here](https://github.com/fomightez/pymol-binder)
- [here](https://github.com/fomightez/orca-plotly-binderized)

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