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Latest: 0.5.7
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[SRC] (canto-0.5.7.tar.gz)

Debian
Official package (sid)

Gentoo
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Arch
Arch User Repository

Download

To the right, you'll find the download links you need, whether you're building from source or installing a package.

If you're interested in being bleeding edge, you can download the source straight from the git repo with this command:

        $ git clone http://codezen.org/src/canto.git

Manual Install

Installing by hand is very easy since Canto uses the standard Python distutils. This is documented in the INSTALL file inside the tarball.

Untar

        $ tar -xvf canto-version.tar.gz

Install

        $ cd canto-version
        $ sudo python setup.py install

Or, run without installing

        $ cd canto-version
        $ ./runhere.sh

This will install canto to the root of your filesystem. Alternatively, if you don't want to install Canto, or don't have permissions to install Canto, you can untar the source and run ./runhere.sh and try Canto without leaving the source directory.

Installing elsewhere

Installing using `setup.py install --home` or any other prefix should work as well. However, you must make sure that you setup your paths correctly. For example, if you install with `setup.py install --prefix=/home/myuser/canto-root` to properly run canto you'd have to set:

        $ export PATH="$PATH:/home/myuser/canto-root/bin"
        $ export PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:/home/myuser/canto-root/usr/lib/site-packages"

Optionally, if you want help to work inside of canto, you have to add to your MAN_PATH too.

        $ export MANPATH="$MANPATH:/home/myuser/canto-root/share/man"

If you use canto a lot from this root, you can add these to your shell profile (.zshrc/.bashrc, etc.)

Requirements

NCurses >=5.5 with wide-char support (ncursesw)
Python >= 2.5.0 (tested on 2.5.2)
feedparser
chardet

Platforms

GNU/Linux x86, amd64 are tested.
Any architecture should work.
Any OS supporting Python/C/Ncursesw should work.
OpenBSD may not be supported due to curses tweaking.

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