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Install pip (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip)
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Type "pip install ."
Tentakel requires a working Python installation. It is known to work with Python 2.3. Python 2.2 and Python 2.1 are not supported. Theoretically, tentakel should work on any platform that is supported by Python. Before you read on be sure to check the homepage to see if there is a package available for your system. Using one of the packages is the recommended way to install tentakel.
If your system has an optional python-dev (or similar) package you should install it since otherwise it is most likely the tentakel installation will complain about missing distutils.
Installation process:
You should be root for the install step.
If you have different versions of python installed, you can select one by setting the path to the desired interpreter in the PYTHON environment variable, for example like this:
If you want to install into a different location than /usr/local you should set the PREFIX environment variable accordingly, for example like this:
Probably you get a warning like this:
warning: install: modules installed to '/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/', which is not in Python's module search path (sys.path) -- you'll have to change the search path yourself
In this case you will have to put this path to your PYTHONPATH environment variable.
The tentakel commandline utility will install into $PREFIX/bin/tentakel. If $PREFIX/bin is not contained in your PATH variable you will have to append this directory in order to call tentakel without the need to type the whole path.
Finally you should setup a tentakel.conf file in /etc or in $HOME/.tentakel/. An example file should be installed in $PREFIX/share/doc/tentakel. You can get more information about the configuration file format by reading the manual page tentakel(1).