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authorpatrick <p.totzke@ed.ac.uk>2011-08-18 14:33:34 +0100
committerpatrick <p.totzke@ed.ac.uk>2011-08-18 14:39:19 +0100
commit0c37bb7d8cf823c77a6b9e8a9df23cf80c80b936 (patch)
tree7e771d575c99f72602773bc01a3db69b4bd8aaeb /INSTALL
parent039bed2f3d88a73997374d2aa01059e9358777f3 (diff)
make python 2.7 a requirement
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 88512dd7..8ed2eaeb 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ INSTALL
=======
Alot depends on development versions of notmuch and urwid.
-
+Note that due to restrictions on argparse and subprocess,
+you need to run python v>=2.7.
1. make sure you have urwid V>= 1.0
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@@ -10,6 +11,9 @@ Alot depends on development versions of notmuch and urwid.
> git clone http://github.com/wardi/urwid
> cd urwid
> sudo python setup.py install
+It seems you need the python headers for this.
+On debian/ubuntu:
+>aptitude install python2.7-dev
2. install notmuch and python bindings from git:
@@ -24,18 +28,7 @@ Alot depends on development versions of notmuch and urwid.
> sudo python setup.py install
-3. make sure you have argparse installed:
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-
-argparse is part of the stadndard library since python v2.7.
-If you are running debian and are still on python 2.6, use
-aptitude install python-argparse
-or
-easy_install argparse
-to get a backported version.
-
-
-4. get alot and install it from git:
+3. get alot and install it from git:
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> git clone git://github.com/pazz/alot alot