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Installation notes
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RedHat 64bit
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(as of September 2010)


For making pytables install correctly
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Install cython: ::

	$ pip install cython

Download and install a binary distribution of HDF5. ::

	$ wget http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.8.5-patch1.tar.gz
	$ ./configure --prefix=<dir>
	$ make
	$ make install
	
Also: ::

	$ export HDF5_DIR=<dir>
	
so that pytables can find it.

Also install LZO and remember to do: ::

	$ export LZO_DIR=<dir>

cgtypes
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Download cgkit-1.2.0 from sourceforge.

Use pyrex to recompile cgtypes: ::

	$ cd cgkit-1.2.0
	$ pyrex cgtypes.pyx
	$ python setup.py install


Finally
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At this point: ::

	$ cd flydra
	$ python setup.py develop


Mac OS X
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``motmot.FastImage`` cannot be installed, so you have to do a "light" installation.

Apart from that, everything else can be installed.


Ubuntu Lucid
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(as of October 2010)

Before installing pytables, you have to install the ``lzo`` library, otherwise
you won't be able to read some compressed files created by flydra. 

Here's a suitable sequence of commands: ::
	
	$ sudo apt-get install liblzo2-dev 
	$ sudo apt-get install libbzip2-dev 
	$ pip install numexpr=1.3
	$ pip install tables