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Dabo will be installed using the Python distutils - python setup.py install, |
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but that isn't set up yet, so here is a quick blurb to get you going. |
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Dabo is a runtime library, which your applications will import using standard Python |
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syntax. Therefore, it needs to be in PYTHONPATH, so that your 'import dabo' statements |
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will find it. The easiest way to do this is to put dabo into your Python installation's |
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site-packages directory. The easiest way to find out where this is on your system (yes, |
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it varies, so we can't just tell you where it is) is to start Python and query sys.path. |
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For instance: |
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[pmcnett@sol dabo]$ python |
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Python 2.3.2 (#1, Oct 6 2003, 10:07:16) |
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[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2 |
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Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. |
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>>> import sys |
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>>> sys.path |
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['', '/home/pmcnett/dl/python/wxPythonSrc-2.5.1.5/wxPython', '/usr/lib/python23.zip', |
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'/usr/lib/python2.3', '/usr/lib/python2.3/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk', |
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'/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages', |
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'/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PythonCAD', '/usr/local/gnue/lib/python'] |
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I can see that my site-packages directory is installed in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages. |
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So I can then copy or symlink the dabo root directory there to make it importable. You |
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will likely need administrative privileges to do this on your system, unless you happen |
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to be running Windows. |
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If you would rather put dabo somewhere else, you can put a text file called dabo.pth inside |
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your Python site-packages directory. The contents of this file must specify the parent |
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directory where Dabo can be found. For instance, if you put Dabo in c:\programs\myprogs\dabo, |
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you'll need your dabo.pth to say 'c:\programs\myprogs'. |
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