INSTALL@957b402d4b90
INSTALL
Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:24:58 -0500
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- brett
- date
- Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:24:58 -0500
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- changeset 35
- 957b402d4b90
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[svn] Add support for extracting CAB archives. Because the CAB archive I was
testing on had a single file in it, I fonud a bunch of bugs related to
extracting one file (as opposed to one directory) here, and squashed those
in the process.
x Installation Documentation ============================ Requirements ------------ To run x, you'll need Python_ 2.4 or greater. You can also use Python 2.3 if you separately install the `subprocess module`_. .. _Python: http://www.python.org/ .. _`subprocess module`: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~astrand/popen5/ x calls out to different external tools to support different archive types. Most of these are already installed on most GNU/Linux systems, so you probably won't have to worry about these too much, but just for completeness, the exact requirements for each format are as follows: tar archives tar zip archives unzip, zipinfo cpio archives cpio rpm archives rpm2cpio, cpio deb archives ar, tar, zcat Files compressed with gzip or compress zcat Files compressed with bzip2 bzcat Installation ------------ x is just a simple script, making it easy to stash wherever you need it. Just copy ``scripts/x`` to a location that's convenient for you. If you'd like to install the program system-wide, you can run the following as root or equivalent:: python setup.py install
