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| author | Ivan Alejandro <ivanalejandro0@gmail.com> | 2013-11-21 17:51:07 -0300 |
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| committer | Ivan Alejandro <ivanalejandro0@gmail.com> | 2013-11-21 17:51:07 -0300 |
| commit | 74a8f354deaec027022ac6c349622f915897712b (patch) | |
| tree | 5e2e15192cfdd72a08d113266ca09a8c6e221650 | |
| parent | ab6163d4e7afd1a76c20d68c3bf50ae861d63226 (diff) | |
Recommend install in virtualenv and discourage global installation.
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/client/user-install.md | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/client/user-install.md b/docs/client/user-install.md index 77e9b1a..2ba5a30 100644 --- a/docs/client/user-install.md +++ b/docs/client/user-install.md @@ -105,10 +105,15 @@ Or from the github mirror : $ git clone https://github.com/leapcode/bitmask_client.git Once you have grabbed a copy of the sources, and installed all the base -dependencies, you can install it into your site-packages easily : +dependencies, the recommended way to proceed is to install things in a virtualenv. + + $ virtualenv bitmask && source bitmask/bin/activate + $ make # compile the resources + $ python2 setup.py install + +Or you can install it into your global site-packages easily : $ make # compile the resources $ sudo python2 setup.py install -Although, like always, it is a better idea to install things in a -virtualenv. +WARNING: installing a package in the global site-packages can be harmful because the dependency installation can overwrite some of the existing packages. |