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| author |   Tim Harder <radhermit@gmail.com> | 2015-11-25 23:08:45 -0500 |
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| committer | Tim Harder <radhermit@gmail.com> | 2015-11-25 23:09:27 -0500 |
| commit | 0148c05f3c51ad034db18a91193daf6205dbb5f4 (patch) | |
| tree | 6967fb3998ec761a27160da8ad29b71ff5529b11 /README.rst | |
| parent | pkgcheck: match the default colored output when listing checks (diff) | |
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doc: update installation notes
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@@ -14,13 +14,25 @@ The metadata.xml checks require either xmllint (installed as part of libxml2) or the python bindings to libxml2 (installed as part of libxml2 with USE=python), with the latter preferred for speed reasons. -Installation -============ +Installing +========== No installation is strictly required: just run the ``pkgcheck`` script and -as long as you are not root things should work. If you want to make -pkgcheck available system-wide use the provided ``setup.py`` -(see `Installing python modules`_ for details). +things should work. For a more permanent install see the following options: + +Installing latest pypi release in a virtualenv:: + + pip install pkgcheck + +Installing from git in a virtualenv (latest snakeoil/pkgcore are often required):: + + pip install https://github.com/pkgcore/snakeoil/archive/master.tar.gz + pip install https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcore/archive/master.tar.gz + pip install https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcheck/archive/master.tar.gz + +Installing from a tarball or git repo:: + + python setup.py install pplugincache Notes ===== |