installing bzr

[Erik Bågfors]

On 3/22/07, John Gabriele <jmg3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not really a Python person these days, but wanted to give bzr a
> try. I found the installation a bit disappointing, and thought you
> might benefit from hearing about a prospective new user's experience.
>
> 1. I wanted to install in my own ~/opt directory. Usually, with GNU
> software this is done with "./configure --prefix=/home/me/opt". I read
> the INSTALL file, and it mentioned using "python setup.py install
> --home ~". I tried to read the docs on that, but running "./setup.py
> --help" didn't even mention that "--home" was an option.
>
> So, I tried: "./setup.py install --home=/home/me/opt", and it seemed to install.

FYI, when I install bzr, I usually do this
cd ~/opt (or whereever)
tar xzvf bzrfile.tar.gz
cd ~/bin
ln -s ../opt/bzr-xxx/bzr

and that works beutifully!

To get sftp support, you might want to add
cd ~/opt
tar xzvf paramiko-xxx.tar.gz
cd bzr
ln -s ../paramiko-xxx/paramiko  (I think that's right anyway).

/Erik