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authorPatrick Totzke <patricktotzke@gmail.com>2015-04-07 09:22:11 +0100
committerPatrick Totzke <patricktotzke@gmail.com>2015-04-07 09:22:11 +0100
commitb58de7c8a31e5c8d5b3e6f70451186e9c224b871 (patch)
tree6d2602fa3c47d6bb1a647ff8e2a3b85f55151a8f /docs
parent8f10b82bfef430b137bac468f4aa3d46de78453d (diff)
clean up installation docs
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@@ -7,15 +7,24 @@ Alot depends on recent versions of notmuch and urwid. Note that due to restricti
on argparse and subprocess, you need to run *`3.0` > python ≥ `2.7`* (see :ref:`faq <faq_7>`).
A full list of dependencies is below:
-* `libmagic and python bindings <http://darwinsys.com/file/>`_, ≥ `5.04`:
-* `configobj <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html>`_, ≥ `4.7.0`:
+* `libmagic and python bindings <http://darwinsys.com/file/>`_, ≥ `5.04`
+* `configobj <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html>`_, ≥ `4.7.0`
* `twisted <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/>`_, ≥ `10.2.0`:
-* `libnotmuch <http://notmuchmail.org/>`_ and it's python bindings, ≥ `0.13`.
+* `libnotmuch <http://notmuchmail.org/>`_ and it's python bindings, ≥ `0.13`
* `urwid <http://excess.org/urwid/>`_ toolkit, ≥ `1.1.0`
-* `urwidtrees <https://github.com/pazz/urwidtrees>`_,
+* `urwidtrees <https://github.com/pazz/urwidtrees>`_, ≥ `1.0`
* `PyGPGME <https://launchpad.net/pygpgme>`_ ≥ `0.2`
-On debian/ubuntu these are packaged as::
+.. note:: urwidtrees was only recently detached from alot and is not widely
+ available as a separate package. You can install it e.g., via
+ `pip <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip>`_ directly from github:
+
+ .. code-block:: sh
+
+ pip install --user https://github.com/pazz/urwidtrees/archive/master.zip
+
+
+On debian/ubuntu the rest are packaged as::
python-setuptools python-magic python-configobj python-twisted python-notmuch python-urwid python-gpgme
@@ -37,10 +46,6 @@ You can use `pip` to install directly from GitHub::
$ pip install --user https://github.com/pazz/alot/archive/master.zip
-Or check out a more recent version, e.g. the master branch::
-
- $ pip install --user https://github.com/pazz/alot/archive/master.zip
-
Don't have pip installed? Just download and extract, then run::
python setup.py install --user