INSTALL@ef62f2f55eb8
INSTALL
Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:12:02 -0400
- author
- brett
- date
- Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:12:02 -0400
- branch
- trunk
- changeset 25
- ef62f2f55eb8
- parent 18
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[svn] Move policy-handling code into a dedicated set of classes. This makes
question construction at least moderately cleaner, and more importantly, it
gets it out of the main application class, where it was bugging me.
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
