How To Install Cryptography On Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic?

I keep getting gcc errors when trying to install the python library cryptography. The main error is: error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1 Note I'm usin

Solution 1:

Thank you to @pobe's comment in How to install cryptography on ubuntu? , I realized that I needed to install libssl1.0 instead! Posted as a separate question because it took a really long time to find that answer.