Building and Installing on Linux

Install Prerequisites

You should backup your machine regularly, and confirm you have made a full backup before proceeding.

First you need to install Python and the Python pip installer:

There are a few addition things that are probably nice to have:

To run the test suite, you’ll need Python’s hypothesis module:

…and if you plan to build documentation, sphinx:

Build the Configure Script

Next you build the configure script:

Then run the configure script. The Python version must be specified.

Run the Configure Script

Run the configure script. The Python version must be specified.

# don’t forget the “m” if your stuff has that, which Debian tends to.

Make

There’s a README.Linux file in the top-level tohil directory that might have some useful info in it.