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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/install.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | requirements.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | setup.py | 6 |
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diff --git a/doc/source/install.rst b/doc/source/install.rst index b655894b..dbe5ddfa 100644 --- a/doc/source/install.rst +++ b/doc/source/install.rst @@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ Poezio depends on two libraries: - DNSPython_ (the python3 version, often called dnspython3) - SleekXMPP_ +Additionally, it needs *python3-setuptools* to install an executable file. + If you do not want to install those libraries, you can skip directly to the :ref:`installation part <poezio-install-label>` @@ -139,7 +141,8 @@ If you have git installed, it will download and update locally the libraries for you. (and if you don’t have git installed, install it) -If you really want to install it, run as root (or sudo in ubuntu or whatever): +If you really want to install it, first install the *python3-setuptools* package +in your distribution, then run as root (or sudo in ubuntu or whatever): .. code-block:: bash diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt index 462dc735..fbb5895a 100644 --- a/requirements.txt +++ b/requirements.txt @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ sleekxmpp==1.2 dnspython3==1.11.1 sphinx==1.2.1 +setuptools argparse pyinotify python-mpd2 @@ -1,7 +1,13 @@ #!/usr/bin/env python3 + try: from setuptools import setup, Extension except ImportError: + print('Setuptools was not found.\n' + 'This script will use distutils instead, which will NOT' + ' be able to install a `poezio` executable.\nIf you are ' + 'using it to build a package or install poezio, please ' + 'install setuptools.\n\nYou will also see a few warnings.\n') from distutils.core import setup, Extension import os |