latua documentation

Installation

Contact: team@petunial.com
Date: 2007-10-16
Status: This is a "work in progress"
Revision: 292
Copyright: BSD License

Dedication

For system administrators.

Abstract

This document describes how to install latua.

Table of Contents

1   Supported platforms

latua should run on the following platforms:

  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Mac Os X
  • OpenBSD

Other platforms should work too, but are not official supported.

2   Requirements

The following software is required to run latua:

Python 2.4 should work too, but is not official supported because it does not contain the sqlite3 core module. Running latua with Python 2.4 requires pysqlite from [http://www.initd.org/tracker/pysqlite] for the indexer module.

2.1   Windows dependencies

Running latua under windows requires:

3   Packages installation

latua is available as package for various operating systems and distributions.

3.1   Windows

Just download and run: latua-version.win32.exe.

3.2   Linux RPM

Download the latua-version.noarch.rpm package and use the following command for installation:

# rpm -ihv latua-version.noarch.rpm

4   Source installation

Extract latua sources:

# tar xzvf latua-version.tar.gz

Installation via python distutils:

# cd latua-version
# python setup.py install

Optional: run test suite before (or after) installation:

# python test/test