Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of Building

Timestamp:

05/25/13 12:04:26 (8 years ago)

Author:

Antoine Martin

Comment:

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Building

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 For running the *nix server, you will need {{{Xvfb}}} or [http://xpra.org/Xdummy.html Xdummy] (if available for your platform), xauth and keyboard utilities and xauth.
 
+
+== [[Image(http://xpra.org/icons/gears.png)]] Building with distutils ==
+
+For installing into a local {{{./install}}} directory as a normal user, simply run:
+{{{
+./setup.py install --home=./install
+}}}
+You then have to add the local installation directory to your {{{PYTHONPATH}}} whenever you want to use xpra:
+{{{
+PYTHONPATH=./install/lib*/python xpra ...
+}}}
+
+To install globally for all users via sudo:
+{{{
+rm -rf build install
+sudo ./setup.py install
+}}}
+
+== [[Image(http://xpra.org/icons/remove.png)]] Uninstall ==
+setuptools/distutils do not provide any uninstallation mechanism, this has nothing to do with Xpra. 
+That said, it is generally enough to remove (but you must ensure that these are the correct files as you may damage your system otherwise!):
+/usr/bin/xpra
+/usr/lib*/python*/*-packages/xpra*
+/usr/share/xpra
 
 
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 Then you can find the OSX specific build scripts [http://xpra.org/trac/browser/xpra/trunk/osx here]
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