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authorCole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>2013-04-03 18:35:30 -0400
committerCole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>2013-04-03 19:40:40 -0400
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Update INSTALL for the new world order
And add a todo.txt note about documenting the translation process, and how to update translations.
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-Basic Install
--------------
+ Basic Install
+ =============
-To build virt-manager, run the command:
+For starters, if you just want to run virt-manager/virt-install to test out
+changes, it can be done from the source directory:
- ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make
+ ./virt-manager
-You can then run virt-manager in the source directory with
+To install the software into /usr/local (usually), you can do:
- python src/virt-manager.py
-
-To install the software into /usr/local (usually), you can then run:
-
- make install
+ python setup.py install
To build an RPM, you can run:
- make rpm
-
-virt-manager generally requires the latest upstream version of
-python-virtinst, which checked out with
+ python setup.py run
-git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/python-virtinst.git
+setup.py generally has all the build and install commands, for more info see:
-If you want to replace your system installed virt-manager version,
-add --prefix=/usr to ./configure. Please see the INSTALL.autotools file
-for much more information about install options.
+ python setup.py --help-commands
+ python setup.py install --help
+ http://docs.python.org/inst/standard-install.html