| 17 | | PRIOR INSTRUCTIONS (OUT OF DATE) |
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| 18 | | Dabo is a runtime library, which your applications will import using standard |
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| 19 | | Python syntax. Therefore, it needs to be in PYTHONPATH, so that your |
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| 20 | | 'import dabo' statements will find it. The easiest way to do this is to put |
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| 21 | | dabo into your Python installation's site-packages directory. The easiest way |
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| 22 | | to find out where this is on your system (yes, it varies, so we can't just tell |
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| 23 | | you where it is) is to start Python and query sys.path. |
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| 24 | | |
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| 25 | | For instance: |
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| 27 | | [pmcnett@sol dabo]$ python |
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| 28 | | Python 2.3.2 (#1, Oct 6 2003, 10:07:16) |
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| 29 | | [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2 |
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| 30 | | Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. |
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| 31 | | >>> import sys |
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| 32 | | >>> sys.path |
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| 33 | | ['', '/home/pmcnett/dl/python/wxPythonSrc-2.5.1.5/wxPython', '/usr/lib/python23.zip', |
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| 34 | | '/usr/lib/python2.3', '/usr/lib/python2.3/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk', |
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| 35 | | '/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages', |
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| 36 | | '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PythonCAD', '/usr/local/gnue/lib/python'] |
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| 37 | | |
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| 38 | | I can see that my site-packages directory is installed in |
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| 39 | | /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages. So I can then copy or symlink the dabo root |
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| 40 | | directory there to make it importable. You will likely need administrative |
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| 41 | | privileges to do this on your system, unless you happen to be running Windows, |
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| 42 | | which most likely will let you write to any location that you want. |
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| 43 | | |
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| 44 | | If you would rather put dabo somewhere else, you can put a text file called |
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| 45 | | dabo.pth inside your Python site-packages directory. The contents of this file |
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| 46 | | must specify the parent directory where Dabo can be found. For instance, if |
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| 47 | | you put Dabo in c:\programs\myprogs\dabo, you'll need your dabo.pth to say |
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| 48 | | 'c:\programs\myprogs'. |
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