[tahoe-dev] Installation on Mac

[Basil M Kuriakose]

Ill try installing pip. Is it possible to get a installation documentation
on mac os x? Very detailed and updated?

On Wednesday, July 17, 2013, Mark Berger wrote:

> I can confirm that 'python setup.py build' wiill not run on OSX 10.8
> without sudo. The error message is "error: src/allmydata/_version.py:
> Permission denied". If this is not what is supposed to happen, then someone
> should open a ticket.
>
> Basil,
>
> Do you have pip installed? If so you can run 'pip install allmydata-tahoe'
> and it will download and install all of the dependencies for you since that
> seems to be what is causing you trouble. If you don't have pip, you can
> follow the instructions here to install it:
> http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html
>
> - Mark Berger
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Daira Hopwood <
> davidsarah at leastauthority.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'davidsarah at leastauthority.com');>> wrote:
>
>> On 14/07/13 21:37, Basil M Kuriakose wrote:
>> > Please can u guide me how u installed successfully on mac osx?
>> >
>> > On Monday, July 15, 2013, Till Steinmetz wrote:
>> >
>> >     Well, on my mac with  osx 10.8 the setup won't run without sudo.
>>
>> 'python setup.py build' will always run without sudo, unless soemthing
>> very
>> strange is going on. You can then use 'bin/tahoe' to run the tahoe
>> command,
>> and you can alias or symlink this or put the bin/ directory on the PATH,
>> if
>> you just want to type 'tahoe'.
>>
>> 'python setup.py install' needs sudo when doing a system-wide installation
>> (as opposed to an installation into a virtualenv). Note that
>> 'python setup.py install' does not install Tahoe-LAFS' dependencies;
>> you'll
>> have to do that separately (this is completely standard behaviour for a
>> 'setup.py' script).
>>
>> --
>> Daira Hopwood ⚥
>>
>>
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