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Installation

This is a step by step guide to installing the toolkit on your system. If your OS already has the toolkit prepackaged, then please let us know what steps are required to install it.

Download

Download a stable released version. For those who need problems fixed, or who want to work on the bleeding edge, get the latest source from Subversion.

Installing packaged versions

Get the package for your system:

RPM If you want to install easily on an RPM based system
tar.gz for source based installing on Linux
.exe for Windows
.deb for Debian GNU/Linux (etch version)

The RPM package can be installed by using the following command:

rpm -Uvh translate-toolkit-1.0.1.rpm

To install a tar.bz2

tar xvjf translate-toolkit-1.1.0.tar.bz2
cd translate-toolkit-1.1.0
su
./setup.py install

On Windows simply click on the .exe file and follow the instructions.

On Debian (if you are on etch), just type the following command :

aptitude install translate-toolkit

If you are using sarge or a previous version, you may install the tar.bz2 version. Be sure to install python and python development first with

apt-get install python python-dev

Installing from Subversion

If you want to try the bleeding edge, or just want to have the latest fixes from a stabilising branch then you need to use Subversion to get your sources.

svn co https://translate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/translate/src/trunk translate

This will retrieve the trunk version of the toolkit. Further Subversion instructions are also available.

Once you have the sources you have two options, a full install

su
./setup.py install

or, running the tools from the source directory

./setupath # Only needed the first time
. setpath  # Do this once for a session

Verify installed version

To verify which version of the toolkit you have installed run:

[l10n@server]# moz2po --version
moz2po 1.1.0