Installing and running pypy on linux

I have been attempting to install and run pypy3 on a linux machine but am running into troubles. I have been using pypy on a mac but installed it using homebrew so didn’t encounter any of these troubles.

I downloaded the most recent build and unpacked the tar file as described by their documentation. I followed the steps exactly (except replacing pypy with pypy3 and using the appropriate file name). However, when typing

./pypy3-v6.0.0-linux64/bin/pypy3

I get the following error:

./pypy3-v6.0.0-linux64/bin/pypy3: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I’m not sure how to interpret this error. Despite the pypy documentation saying that it should run in place, pypy3 filename.py still returns the error:

If 'pypy3' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that 
contains it, like this:
cnf pypy3

But cnf pypy3 only confirms that the pypy3 is not found.

Any help on what I’m doing wrong would be appreciated.

Answer

Those distributions are for debian linux only. You may have better luck with the portable binaries if the ones provided by OpenSuse are too old for you.

Edit: note that you used a link to an old version of the documents, you should have looked here which states “These builds depend on dynamically linked libraries that may not be available on your OS”