INSTALL@e3675644bbb6
INSTALL
Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:31:25 -0500
- author
- brett
- date
- Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:31:25 -0500
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- trunk
- changeset 41
- e3675644bbb6
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[svn] Minor clean-ups. The most important of these is that we now have a better
strategy for dealing with the pathological case of having many extraction
destinations taken: after trying various names with number suffixes, we'll
finally resort to mkstemp/mkdtemp to get what we need. This still isn't
guaranteed to work but it's much more reliable. Also print out a warning
for the user when we extract to some weird directory.
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
