Updated Install guide (markdown => mediawiki)

ProgVal 2011-06-23 05:23:52 -07:00
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This is the "easy to follow" guide to installing supybot. The installation documentation provided with the supybot distribution ([http://supybot.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=supybot/supybot;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL;hb=HEAD INSTALL], [http://supybot.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=supybot/supybot;a=blob_plain;f=docs/GETTING_STARTED;hb=HEAD GETTING_STARTED]) is really quite good already, but since people keep coming to IRC, asking a repeating pattern of questions, we thought it would be a good idea to expand it a bit to make it a little more of a "foolproof guide".
=Dependencies=
= Dependencies =
Here's the list of recommended software to run Supybot:
* Supybot is written in [http://www.python.org/ Python], and requires Python 2.4 or greater (but not Python 3).
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We are now ready to install supybot itself. Most distributions have a supybot package in the repositories. This is probably the easiest way to install. If that is what you want to do, that's fine, and you're ready to move on to the next section. :)
However, supybot tends to be actively developed, and it's best to grab the latest codebase. Easiest way to do that is to clone the repository with running `git clone git://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria.git`, but you can also click the "Downloads" button at the [Limnoria repository](https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria).
If you downloaded the code archive, extract it to some temporary directory, and ''cd'' into the ''supybot'' directory which contains the extracted code.
However, supybot tends to be actively developed, and it's best to grab the latest codebase. Easiest way to do that is to clone the repository with running:
git clone git://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria.git
You can also click the "Downloads" button at the [https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria Limnoria repository]. Then, extract the tarball/zipball to some temporary directory, and ''cd'' into the ''supybot'' directory which contains the extracted code.
===If you have root access===
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=Installation: OS X=
The steps are essentially the same as those of the [[#Installation: UNIX/Linux/BSD|previous section]], except there are no repositories. Grab the latest python installer for OS X from http://python.org, and follow the rest of the steps.
The steps are essentially the same as those of the previous section, except there are no repositories. Grab the latest python installer for OS X from http://python.org, and follow the rest of the steps.
=Installation: Windows=
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==Install Supybot==
We are now ready to install Supybot itself. First, you need to grab the latest code snapshot of Supybot. Easiest way to do that is to clone the repository with running `git clone git://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria.git`, but you can also click the "Downloads" button at the [Limnoria repository](https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria).
We are now ready to install Supybot itself. First, you need to grab the latest code snapshot of Supybot. Easiest way to do that is to clone the repository with running `git clone git://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria.git`, but you can also click the "Downloads" button at the [https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria Limnoria repository].
If you downloaded the code archive, extract it to some temporary directory, and ''cd'' into the ''supybot'' directory which contains the extracted code.