Detailed Install and Setup

The following instructions are for Debian/Ubuntu Linux. For other platforms, the setup is generally the same, with the exeption of installing system dependencies.

required

Multi-Mechanize requires Python 2.6 or 2.7

system-wide install

• install dependencies on Debian/Ubuntu:

  $ sudo apt-get install python-pip python-matplotlib

• install multi-mechanize from PyPI using Pip:

  $ sudo pip install -U multi-mechanize

virtualenv + pip install (with matplotlib system package)

• install dependencies on Debian/Ubuntu:

  $ sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv python-matplotlib

• install multi-mechanize from PyPI in a virtualenv:

  $ virtualenv --system-site-packages ENV
  $ cd ENV
  $ source bin/activate
  (ENV)$ pip install multi-mechanize

virtualenv + pip install (with no-site-packages)

• install dependencies on Debian/Ubuntu:

  $ sudo apt-get install build-essential libfreetype6-dev libpng-dev
  $ sudo apt-get install python-dev python-virtualenv

• install multi-mechanize and matplotlib from PyPI in a virtualenv:

  $ virtualenv ENV
  $ cd ENV
  $ source bin/activate
  (ENV)$ pip install multi-mechanize
  (ENV)$ pip install matplotlib