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Improve distutils install instructions.

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distutils install
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We do not check all dependencies of Gramps, see README for a
list of all required and optional dependencies. On running Gramps, errors will
be returned if dependencies are missing.
If you are building from released tarball, you should be able to just
run
We do not check all dependencies of Gramps, see README for a list of
all required and optional dependencies. Missing dependencies will
result in runtime errors.
To build and install, whether from a tarball or git repo:
python setup.py build
python setup.py install
sudo python setup.py install
where the last must be done as root. You can work with Gramps if you only build
it by pointing the PYTHONPATH to the build directory, but things like MIME type
and desktop entries will not be created then.
You can avoid using sudo for the install step by specifying a prefix to which you have write priviledge. The default is /usr/local, which is usually owned by root. You can learn of more options with
python setup.py --help
You can work with Gramps if you only build it by pointing the
PYTHONPATH to the build directory, but things like MIME type and
desktop entries will not be created then.
Typical install directories in linux (ubuntu) are:
* /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gramps/ : the gramps python module