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authorCatherine Devlin <catherine.devlin@gmail.com>2011-07-20 23:21:29 -0400
committerCatherine Devlin <catherine.devlin@gmail.com>2011-07-20 23:21:29 -0400
commitb4ae011674707191e820f2d2f08be1141b035c58 (patch)
tree4519edb1e307456980487cec0511091af90f260c
parent6792d79ccc4a0cc0577db43625503b735878a2cf (diff)
downloadcmd2-git-b4ae011674707191e820f2d2f08be1141b035c58.tar.gz
describe Distribute requirement
-rw-r--r--INSTALL.txt14
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diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
index 2d991345..a6a21d52 100644
--- a/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -4,17 +4,19 @@ Development trunk can be downloaded with mercurial::
hg clone http://hg.assembla.com/python-cmd2
-To install from the trunk, ``cd python-cmd2`` and run ``python setup.py install`` or ``python setup.py develop`` (requires setuptools).
+To install from the trunk, ``cd python-cmd2`` and run ``python setup.py install`` or ``python setup.py develop`` (requires setuptools). (Use ``root`` account, or ``sudo``, on *nix.)
Python 3
--------
The Python 3 egg downloaded from PyPI or installed by ``pip`` or ``easy_install`` is ready to go.
-To install from source for Python 3::
+To install from source for Python 3, the 2to3 transformations must be applied to ``cmd2.py``.
+The best way to do this is to install ``distribute`` on Python 3 before installing
+``cmd1``::
- 2to3 -w cmd2.py
- python3 setup.py install
-
+ curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
+ sudo python3 distribute_setup.py
- \ No newline at end of file
+ sudo python3 setup.py install
+