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Installing BE
*************
+Distribution packages
+=====================
+
+Some distributions (Debian_ , Ubuntu_ , others?) package BE. If
+you're running one of those distributions, you can install the package
+with your regular package manager. For Debian, Ubuntu, and related
+distros, that's::
+
+ $ apt-get install bugs-everywhere
+
+However, the official packages can lag behind current development.
+
+If you're running Gentoo_, I've got a live ebuild in my overlay_ that
+installs the current version of BE from the Git source.
+
+Michel Alexandre Salim maintains a Fedora_ package.
+
+.. _Debian: http://packages.debian.org/sid/bugs-everywhere
+.. _Ubuntu: http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/bugs-everywhere
+.. _Gentoo: http://www.gentoo.org/
+.. _overlay: http://blog.tremily.us/posts/Gentoo_overlay/
+.. _Fedora: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/be
+
+
Dependencies
============
+If your distribution does not package BE, you'll have to install it
+yourself, along with its dependencies. Not all of these are strictly
+required. See `Minimal installs`_ for possible shortcuts.
+
============== ======================= =============== ===========================
-Package Role Debian Gentoo
+Package Role Debian_ Gentoo_
============== ======================= =============== ===========================
PyYAML_ serialized data storage python-yaml dev-python/pyyaml
Jinja_ HTML templating python-jinja2 deb-python/jinja
+CherryPy_ serve repos over HTTP python-cherrypy dev-python/cherrypy
Sphinx_ see :doc:`doc` python-sphinx dev-python/sphinx
numpydoc_ see :doc:`doc` dev-python/numpydoc [#npd]_
Docutils_ manpage generation python-docutils dev-python/docutils
@@ -19,6 +48,7 @@ Docutils_ manpage generation python-docutils dev-python/docutils
.. _PyYAML: http://pyyaml.org/
.. _Jinja: http://jinja.pocoo.org/
+.. _CherryPy: http://cherrypy.org/
.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
.. _numpydoc: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpydoc
.. _Docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
@@ -46,10 +76,14 @@ install to another location. With the default installation, you may
need to add ``~/.local/bin/`` to your ``PATH`` so that your shell can
find the installed ``be`` script.
+Minimal installs
+----------------
+
By default, ``make`` builds both a man page for ``be`` and the HTML
Sphinx documentation (:doc:`doc`). You can customize the
-documentation targets by overriding_ the ``DOC`` variable. For
-example, to disable all documentation during a build/install, run::
+documentation targets (if, for example, you don't want to install
+Sphinx) by overriding_ the ``DOC`` variable. For example, to disable
+all documentation during a build/install, run::
$ make DOC= install
@@ -59,18 +93,43 @@ the man page (``doc/man/be.1``) if it exists, so::
$ make
$ make DOC= install
-*will* build (first ``make``) install (second ``make``) the man page.
+*will* build (first ``make``) and install (second ``make``) the man
+ page.
+
+Also note that there is no need to edit the ``Makefile`` to change any
+of its internal variables. You can `override them from the command
+line`__, as we did for ``DOC`` above.
+__ overriding_
+
+Finally, if you want to do the absolute minimum required to install BE
+locally, you can skip the ``Makefile`` entirely, and just use
+``setup.py`` directly::
+
+ $ python setup.py install
+
+See::
+
+ $ python setup.py install --help
+
+for a list of installation options.
+
+You will still need to install PyYAML. Jinja is only used by the
+``html`` command, so feel free to skip Jinja if you don't mind
+avoiding that command. Similarly, CherryPy is only used for the
+``serve`` command. The other dependencies are only used for
+:doc:`building these docs <doc>`, so feel free to skip them and just
+use the docs wherever you're currently reading them.
.. _homepage: http://bugseverywhere.org/
-.. _overriding: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Overriding.html#Overriding
+.. _overriding: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Overriding.html
Release tarballs
================
For those not interested in the cutting edge, or those who don't want
-to worry about installing Git, we'll post release tarballs somewhere
+to worry about installing Git, we'll `post release tarballs`_
(once we actually make a release). After you've downloaded the
release tarball, unpack it with::
@@ -81,18 +140,4 @@ And install it with:::
$ cd be-<VERSION>
$ make install
-
-Distribution packages
-=====================
-
-Some distributions (Debian_ , Ubuntu_ , others?) package BE. If
-you're running one of those distributions, you can install the package
-with your regular package manager. For Debian, Ubuntu, and related
-distros, that's::
-
- $ apt-get install bugs-everywhere
-
-However, the official packages can lag behind current development.
-
-.. _Debian: http://packages.debian.org/sid/bugs-everywhere
-.. _Ubuntu: http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/bugs-everywhere
+.. _post release tarballs: http://download.bugseverywhere.org/releases/