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Tanthony@uab.edu: Category:Developer Tools

2012-04-06T13:44:50Z

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	[[Category:Software]]		[[Category:Software]][[Category:Developer Tools]]

Tanthony@uab.edu: added category software

2012-04-04T14:14:34Z

added category software

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	* [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools setuptools]		* [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools setuptools]
	* [http://packages.python.org/distribute/easy_install.html#custom-installation-locations easy_install custom install locations]		* [http://packages.python.org/distribute/easy_install.html#custom-installation-locations easy_install custom install locations]


			[[Category:Software]]

Ppreddy@uab.edu: mv setuptools install from trac wiki

2010-12-06T16:29:31Z

mv setuptools install from trac wiki

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	* Default installation of EasyInstall/setuptools would install packages/eggs to the Python’s primary site-packages directory		* Default installation of EasyInstall/setuptools would install packages/eggs to the Python’s primary site-packages directory

	=== ~~Custom Installation of Python Packages ($HOME)~~ ===		=== Mac OS X ===

	==== ~~Mac OS X~~ ====		==== Custom Installation of Python Packages ====

	* ''Mac OS X comes with a pre-installation of Python, usually one or two years old'' [http://wiki.python.org/moin/MacPython/PythonDistributionsForMac]. Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) has 2.6.1 version of Python. This is adequate for developing most Python applications like Trac, Galaxy etc. To install a newer version of Python, [see here].		* ''Mac OS X comes with a pre-installation of Python, usually one or two years old'' [http://wiki.python.org/moin/MacPython/PythonDistributionsForMac]. Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) has 2.6.1 version of Python. This is adequate for developing most Python applications like Trac, Galaxy etc. To install a newer version of Python, [see here].
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	* Note, however, that ~/bin is not in the default PATH, so you may have to refer to scripts by their full location. You may want to modify your shell startup script (likely .bashrc or .profile) or your ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist to include ~/bin in your PATH.		* Note, however, that ~/bin is not in the default PATH, so you may have to refer to scripts by their full location. You may want to modify your shell startup script (likely .bashrc or .profile) or your ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist to include ~/bin in your PATH.

			==== Setuptools Installation ====

			* Download setuptools. Choose the appropriate version, ie., for Python-2.6, [http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg#md5=bfa92100bd772d5a213eedd356d64086 download setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg]
			<pre>
			$ cd ~/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/

			wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg#md5=bfa92100bd772d5a213eedd356d64086
			</pre>

			* Make the setuptools package executable
			<pre>
			chmod +x setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg
			</pre>

			* Run setuptools as a shell script. This will install '''easy_install''' to ''~/bin''
			<pre>
			sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg
			</pre>

	== References ==		== References ==

Ppreddy@uab.edu: add references

2010-12-03T19:36:55Z

add references

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	* Note, however, that ~/bin is not in the default PATH, so you may have to refer to scripts by their full location. You may want to modify your shell startup script (likely .bashrc or .profile) or your ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist to include ~/bin in your PATH.		* Note, however, that ~/bin is not in the default PATH, so you may have to refer to scripts by their full location. You may want to modify your shell startup script (likely .bashrc or .profile) or your ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist to include ~/bin in your PATH.

			== References ==
			* [http://packages.python.org/distribute/easy_install.html easy_install]
			* [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools setuptools]
			* [http://packages.python.org/distribute/easy_install.html#custom-installation-locations easy_install custom install locations]

Ppreddy@uab.edu: /* Customize Python Packages Install Location to $HOME */ change header

2010-12-03T19:34:44Z

Customize Python Packages Install Location to $HOME: change header

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	* Default installation of EasyInstall/setuptools would install packages/eggs to the Python’s primary site-packages directory		* Default installation of EasyInstall/setuptools would install packages/eggs to the Python’s primary site-packages directory

	=== ~~Customize~~ Python Packages ~~Install Location to~~ $HOME ===		=== Custom Installation of Python Packages ($HOME) ===

	==== Mac OS X ====		==== Mac OS X ====

Ppreddy@uab.edu: initial doc for python

2010-12-03T19:33:12Z

initial doc for python

New page

__TOC__

== Python ==

* [http://packages.python.org/distribute/easy_install.html EasyInstall] (a python module (easy_install)) is bundled with [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools setuptools] to automatically download, build, install, and manage Python packages [http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall].

* To have a complete Python development environment (install plugins, apps, eggs) in your $HOME, python path must be configured properly.

* Default installation of EasyInstall/setuptools would install packages/eggs to the Python’s primary site-packages directory

=== Customize Python Packages Install Location to $HOME ===

==== Mac OS X ====

* ''Mac OS X comes with a pre-installation of Python, usually one or two years old'' [http://wiki.python.org/moin/MacPython/PythonDistributionsForMac]. Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) has 2.6.1 version of Python. This is adequate for developing most Python applications like Trac, Galaxy etc. To install a newer version of Python, [see here].

* The default installation location for Python packages on Mac is '''/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages'''.

* Mac has native support for '''user''' installation of Python packages i.e., on a Mac OS X machine, you should just use the '''~/Library/Python/2.x/site-packages''' directory as your custom installation location, because it is already configured to process .pth files, and already knows this [http://packages.python.org/distribute/easy_install.html#mac-os-x-user-installation]. If the above directory does not exist in your $HOME, create it.
<pre>
mkdir -p ~/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages
</pre>

* Before installing EasyInstall/setuptools, just create a '''~/.pydistutils.cfg''' file with the following contents (or add this to the existing contents):
<pre>
[install]
install_lib = ~/Library/Python/$py_version_short/site-packages
install_scripts = ~/bin
</pre>

* This will tell the distutils and EasyInstall to always install packages in your personal site-packages directory, and scripts to ~/bin. (Note: do not replace $py_version_short with an actual Python version in the configuration file! The distutils will substitute the correct value at runtime, so that the above configuration file should work correctly no matter what Python version you use, now or in the future.)

* Note, however, that ~/bin is not in the default PATH, so you may have to refer to scripts by their full location. You may want to modify your shell startup script (likely .bashrc or .profile) or your ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist to include ~/bin in your PATH.