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This file contains some useful details on the installation from source code
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for GRAMPS. It does not cover installation of a pre-built binary package.
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For that use your package manager, the rest is already done by the packager.
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Uninstall old version
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If you do a source install in the same place of an existing install,
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you need to remove the old version first. You can delete the old
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version by deleting the installed directories (for example,
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/usr/share/gramps
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/usr/local/lib/pythonx.x/site-packages/gramps
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/usr/local/lib/pythonx.x/dist-packages/gramps
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/usr/lib/pythonx.x/site-packages/gramps
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/usr/lib/pythonx.x/dist-packages/gramps
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where pythonx.x is python2.7 or whatever version you installed gramps with.
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Also remove the gramps .egg files that are installed along with the gramps
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directory.
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If you don't know the list of all files that Gramps installed, you can
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reinstall it with the --record option, and take a look at the list this
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produces (so python setup.py install --record grampsfiles.txt
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GRAMPS is a python application, so loading happens on reading the
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files, meaning that files of a previous version that are no longer
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present in the new version can still be loaded, making the new install
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unstable!
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distutils install
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We do not check all dependencies of Gramps, see README for a
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list of all required and optional dependencies. On running Gramps, errors will
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be returned if dependencies are missing.
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If you are building from released tarball, you should be able to just
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run
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python setup.py build
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python setup.py install
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where the last must be done as root. You can work with Gramps if you only build
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it by pointing the PYTHONPATH to the build directory, but things like MIME type
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and desktop entries will not be created then.
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Typical install directories in linux (ubuntu) are:
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* /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gramps/ : the gramps python module
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* /usr/local/share/mime-info : mime info so gramps opens files automatically
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* /usr/local/share/icons/gnome : our icons
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* /usr/local/share/doc/gramps : documentation, also example .gramps and .gedcom
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* /usr/local/bin : the gramps executable
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* /usr/local/share/locale/xx/LC_MESSAGES : xx language code, translation
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* /usr/local/share/man/man1/xx/man1 : xx language code, man file
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* /usr/local/share/mime
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* /usr/local/share/mime-info
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Running Gramps
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Gramps is python only, so no compilation is needed, you can even run gramps
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from the source directory.
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a) You installed Gramps, then you can run it with the command
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gramps
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b) You installed Gramps, and want to start it from the PYTHONPATH. In this
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case use the command:
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python -c 'from gramps.grampsapp import main; main()'
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The executable 'gramps' in /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin from a) does
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this for you.
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b) You downloaded the Gramps source code to a directory, and want to run it.
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You can start Gramps from the source code directory with
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python Gramps.py
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See gramps/gen/const.py how Gramps finds his resource directories in case
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you encounter problems.
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Custom directory installation
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If you would like to install GRAMPS without being root, or in an
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alternative location on windows, supply the --root argument to setup.py
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For example:
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python setup.py install --root ~/test
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or
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python setup.py install --root ~/test --enable-packager-mode
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The last option, --enable-packager-mode, is needed if you want to disable
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execution of post-install mime processing. If you don't have root/admin
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access, this will be needed
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Packager's issues
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There is a MANIFEST.in file to indicate the work needed.
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To create a source distribution run:
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python setup.py sdist
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