[tahoe-dev] Installation on Mac

[Basil M Kuriakose]

See, it'd be great to get prebuilt packages for mac users. I tried
everything u suggested and the error is still the same. Is there a
screencast of building and installing tahoe-LAFS on mac os x 10.8 ?
What about on mavericks? Will it work then?

On Thursday, July 18, 2013, Daira Hopwood wrote:

> On 18/07/13 02:55, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:
> > Correct: "python setup.py install" will not work without sudo or root
> > privileges. However, "python setup.py build" *will* work without sudo
> > or root privileges. The instructions ¹ do not instruct the user to run
> > "python setup.py install"!
> >
> > However, users often run "python setup.py install" even though the
> > instructions don't say to, and they often put "sudo" before "python
> > setup.py build" even though the instructions don't say to. So, I'm
> > kind of despairing of if there is any way to instruct users in how to
> > build and use a Python program from source…
>
> So here's a proposal.
>
> Alias 'really-install-without-dependencies' to zetuptoolz' "install"
> command in setup.cfg. Then make 'python setup.py install' do nothing
> except print a message similar to the following (replacing "bin/tahoe"
> with "bin\tahoe" if on Windows):
>
>
> The recommended ways to use Tahoe-LAFS are either to run
> 'python setup.py build' as a normal user (and then access the
> Tahoe-LAFS CLI using 'bin/tahoe'), or to install your operating
> system package manager's 'tahoe-lafs' package.
>
> 'python setup.py install' would normally install only Tahoe-LAFS
> itself, not its dependencies. This often results in a broken
> installation, but if it is really what you wanted to do, then run
> the following command (as superuser, or as a normal user if
> installing into a virtualenv):
>
>   python setup.py really-install-without-dependencies
>
> --
> Daira Hopwood ⚥
>
>
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