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building & installing RezzMe?
the following sections describe the build and install process for linux, windows and mac OSX.
pre-requisites
rezzme is a PyQt?4 based utility written in python. as such you need to have the following pre-requisites installed:
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python (>=2.4)
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(ubuntu/debian) if python is not already installed as part of your linux install, do
apt-get install python
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(windows) use the windows installer from the python download site
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(mac osx) python is already installed on your mac…but…that’s not going to work: see the instructions in the next section for what to do.
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PyQt?4 runtime, development libraries (>= PyQt?4 4.3.3), and development tools
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(ubuntu/debian) this is just an
apt-get install python-qt4-dev pyqt4-dev-tools
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(windows) use the windows installer from the riverbank download page
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(mac osx) ok. things are a tad more complex on mac osx. well, did i say “tad”? scratch that, things are a lot more complicated on mac osx (yeah, and you thought mac osx was easy, me too…) it’s so complex that the folks at arstechnica wrote a nice tutorial — i suggest you hop over to their page and follow the setup instructions. you should also get
py2appas part of the deal.
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(windows) py2exe
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(windows) inno setup tools and inno setup
make sure you install these packages (and their dependencies).
next, you will need get the rezzme source package (unless you already have it):
% svn checkout http://forge.opensimulator.org/svn/rezzme
this instruction will checkout the latest available version of the rezzme code base into the (newly create) rezzme directory.
if you later want to update to the latest available version, just go into your rezzme directory and issue the following command:
% svn update
that should retrieve all changes since the last update and give you the latest available version.
building: linux
once you have installed the pre-requisites, building the rezzme package is just a matter of invoking:
% make clean build
that will create a tar file in the dist directory, rezzme-VERSION.tar.bz2 (where VERSION is something like 7.0.4, for example). this is the distributable rezzme package for linux (we are working on debian packages and RPMs).
installation: linux
installation on linux is quite simple:
% cp rezzme-VERSION.tar.bz2 /tmp
% cd /tmp
% tar xvf rezzme-VERSION.tar.bz2
% cd rezzme-VERSION
% sudo python setup.py install
the last step will provide you with some further informations about the install process.
building: windows
building on windows is almost as easy as building on linux, we start again with
% make clean build
you’ll notice that after a bit of mucking around the make process will eventually (sooner if you’ve got a faster machine than i have) start inno setup tool for you: just type
you will end up with a nice installer executable.
installing: windows
installation on windows is easy, very easy. just click on the installer executable and follow the instructions. make sure you have the option ticked that will place a rezzme icon on your desktop.
oh! and if you are upgrading rezzme: quit your running rezzme system tray icon before doing the installation of the new rezzme — that will save you a windows reboot!
building: mac osx
having gone through the challenge of installing pyqt4 on your mac, building rezzme is a breeze:
% make clean build
that will create a rezzme-VERSION.dmg image file which you can distribute but also use to install rezzme.
installing: mac osx
mount the rezzme-VERSION.dmg image file and drag and drop the rezzme application to your applications folder. done.
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