1Installing Python-Markdown 2========================== 3 4Checking Dependencies 5--------------------- 6 7Python-Markdown requires the ElementTree module to be installed. In Python2.5+ 8ElementTree is included as part of the standard library. For earlier versions 9of Python, open a Python shell and type the following: 10 11 >>> import cElementTree 12 >>> import ElementTree 13 14If at least one of those does not generate any errors, then you have a working 15copy of ElementTree installed on your system. As cElementTree is faster, you 16may want to install that if you don't already have it and it's available for 17your system. 18 19See <http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm> for more information or to 20download the latest version of ElementTree. 21 22The East Way 23------------ 24 25The simplest way to install Python-Markdown is by using SetupTools. As and 26Admin/Root user on your system do: 27 28 easy_install ElementTree 29 easy_install Markdown 30 31That's it, your done. 32 33Installing on Windows 34--------------------- 35 36Download the Windows installer (.exe) from PyPI: 37<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Markdown> 38 39Double-click the file and follow the instructions. 40 41If you prefer to manually install Python-Markdown in Windows, download the 42Zip file, unzip it, and on the command line in the directory you unzipped to: 43 44 python setup.py install 45 46If you plan to use the provided command line script, you need to make sure your 47script directory is on your system path. On a typical Python install of Windows 48the Scripts directory is `C:\Python25\Scripts\`. Adjust according to your 49system and add that to your system path. 50 51Installing on *nix Systems 52-------------------------- 53 54From the command line do the following: 55 56 wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/M/Markdown/Markdown-2.0.tar.gz 57 tar xvzf Markdown-2.0.tar.gz 58 cd markdown-2.0/ 59 sudo python setup.py install 60 61Using the Git Repository 62------------------------ 63 64If your the type that like to live on the edge, you may want to keep up with 65the latest additions and bug fixes in the repository between releases. 66Python-Markdown is maintained in a Git repository on Gitorious.org. To 67get a copy of Python-Markdown from the repository do the following from the 68command line: 69 70 git clone git://gitorious.org/python-markdown/mainline.git python-markdown 71 cd python-markdown 72 python setup.py install 73 74