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@@ -175,6 +175,11 b' In order to configure less as your default pager, do the following:' | |||
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175 | 175 | properly interpret control sequences, which is how color |
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176 | 176 | information is given to your terminal. |
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178 | For the bash shell, add to your ~/.bashrc file the lines:: | |
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180 | export PAGER=less | |
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181 | export LESS=-r | |
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178 | 183 | For the csh or tcsh shells, add to your ~/.cshrc file the lines:: |
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180 | 185 | setenv PAGER less |
@@ -9,14 +9,16 b' install all of its dependencies.' | |||
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11 | 11 | Please let us know if you have problems installing IPython or any of its |
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dependencies. IPython requires Python version 2. |
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13 | has been done on version 2.6, and so far everything looks fine. We have *not* | |
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14 | yet started to port IPython to Python 3.0, where the language changes are much | |
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15 | more significant. | |
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12 | dependencies. Officially, IPython requires Python version 2.5 or 2.6. We | |
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13 | have *not* yet started to port IPython to Python 3.0. | |
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17 | 15 | .. warning:: |
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19 | IPython will not work with Python 2.4 or below. | |
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17 | Officially, IPython supports Python versions 2.5 and 2.6. | |
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19 | IPython 0.10 has only been well tested with Python 2.5 and 2.6. Parts of | |
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20 | it may work with Python 2.4, but we do not officially support Python 2.4 | |
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21 | anymore. If you need to use 2.4, you can still run IPython 0.9. | |
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21 | 23 | Some of the installation approaches use the :mod:`setuptools` package and its |
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22 | 24 | :command:`easy_install` command line program. In many scenarios, this provides |
@@ -85,8 +87,8 b' Windows' | |||
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86 | 88 | There are a few caveats for Windows users. The main issue is that a basic |
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87 | 89 | ``python setup.py install`` approach won't create ``.bat`` file or Start Menu |
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shortcuts, which most users want. To get an installation with these, |
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89 | two choices: | |
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90 | shortcuts, which most users want. To get an installation with these, you can | |
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91 | use any of the following alternatives: | |
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91 | 93 | 1. Install using :command:`easy_install`. |
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96 | 98 | 3. Install from source, but using :mod:`setuptools` (``python setupegg.py |
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97 | 99 | install``). |
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101 | IPython by default runs in a termninal window, but the normal terminal | |
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102 | application supplied by Microsoft Windows is very primitive. You may want to | |
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103 | download the excellent and free Console_ application instead, which is a far | |
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104 | superior tool. You can even configure Console to give you by default an | |
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105 | IPython tab, which is very convenient to create new IPython sessions directly | |
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106 | from the working terminal. | |
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108 | .. _Console: http://sourceforge.net/projects/console | |
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99 | 111 | Installing the development version |
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