Since:

• I forgot how to do this last week
• I need to do it reasonably regularly
• I can’t find any other correct resources suggesting how to do this

.. I thought I’d record it here.

This assumes:

• You are running Mac OS X (version probably doesn’t matter)
• You are using Homebrew (and if you’re not, why aren’t you?)
• You are using virtualenv

Do the following:

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$ # Download and uncompress python-crack-0.5.1.tar
$ brew install cracklib cracklib-words
$ cd python-crack-0.5.1
$ DEFAULT_DICTPATH=/usr/local/share/cracklib-words ./configure --prefix=$VIRTUAL_ENV
$ make
$ make install

Done!