From 0c37bb7d8cf823c77a6b9e8a9df23cf80c80b936 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: patrick
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:33:34 +0100
Subject: make python 2.7 a requirement
---
INSTALL | 19 ++++++-------------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
(limited to 'INSTALL')
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
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