Installation instructions for Gaphor

Before installing or using Gaphor, read the COPYING file. It contains
important information about what you may and may not do with this
application.

Gaphor is installed by Python's own DistUtils installation utilities.

To run Gaphor, you'll need the following packages installed:

  - PyGTK and Gnome-Python (at least the gnome.canvas module) 2.2.0.
    (If you installed a packaged version of PyGTK (such as RPM's or .deb files)
    make sure you install the development packages too.)

  - DiaCanvas2 0.13.0. If PyGTK is installed properly, it should
    be automatically detected by DiaCanvas2's configure script (so the Python
    bindings can be build).

The simplest way to get up and running is:

  1. 'cd' to the root directory of this package, you're probably already
     in it when reading this file.

  2. Type 'python setup.py config' in order to ensure that all needed
     packages are installed on your system. Note that you need python 2.2
     or newer, so you might need to type 'python2.2 setup.py config' instead.

  3. If you want to run gaphor directly type './run-gaphor.sh'. If you needed
     to use 'python2.2', edit 'run-gaphor.sh' use 'python2.2' instead of
     'python'. You can also run 'python setup.py run' directly from the
     command line.

  4. Type 'python setup.py install' to install python.

Optionally setting can be changed by editing the 'setup.cfg' file.
Please refer to the documentation of distutils for more information about
customizing the installation.

Have fun,

Arjan Molenaar <arjanmol@users.sourceforge.net>

