From c79b5357f896c175ca84e9275407ba46c3864515 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jonas=20Borgstr=C3=B6m?= Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:35:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Improve installatoin instructions. Specifically refer to pip3 instead of pip to avoid potential confusion. Also mention virtualenv --- docs/global.rst.inc | 1 + docs/index.rst | 2 +- docs/installation.rst | 5 ++++- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/global.rst.inc b/docs/global.rst.inc index 694f4d967..e4c57e473 100644 --- a/docs/global.rst.inc +++ b/docs/global.rst.inc @@ -23,3 +23,4 @@ .. _Arch Linux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/attic/ .. _Slackware: http://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=Attic .. _Cython: http://cython.org/ +.. _virtualenv: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv/ diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 3d9f11986..0ba967866 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Easy installation ----------------- You can use pip to install |project_name| quickly and easily:: - $ pip install attic + $ pip3 install attic |project_name| is also part of the Debian_, Ubuntu_, `Arch Linux`_ and Slackware_ distributions of GNU/Linux. diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst index 44e31e4ec..4f1d7a384 100644 --- a/docs/installation.rst +++ b/docs/installation.rst @@ -19,11 +19,14 @@ Newer versions are available from homebrew_ on OS X and from FreeBSD ports. The llfuse_ python package is also required if you wish to mount an archive as a FUSE filesystem. +Virtualenv_ can be used to build and install |project_name| +without affecting the system Python or requiring root access. + Installing from PyPI using pip ------------------------------ :: - $ pip install Attic + $ pip3 install Attic Installing from source tarballs -------------------------------