Download
Before you go ahead and install Gaphor, make sure the following things are set up:
- You should have Python installed, version 2.4.0 or newer
- PyGTK 2.10.0 or newer should have been installed.
- For Linux users, it's pretty certain this package is already installed.
NOTE: On Ubuntu (and probably most other Linux distros as well) you'll have to install the python2.x-dev package in order to install both the easy_install tool and Gaphor via the source. - FreeBSD users should install py-cairo and py-gtk2 from the ports.
- Mac OS X users should consider installing py-cairo and py-gtk2 from the MacPorts.
- Windows users should check out the Win32 page.
- For Linux users, it's pretty certain this package is already installed.
- It's a good idea to have a CustomInstallationLocation for your own Python packages.
Requirements
- Python 2.4.0 or newer
- PyGTK (2.10.0 or newer) and py-cairo language bindings
- Setuptools (will automatically be downloaded if not yet available)
- Python dependencies will be downloaded when you install Gaphor
See also LinuxDistros.
Releases
Gaphor
You can find the latest release at http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/gaphor. To find out what's new check out the News file.
The easiest way to obtain Gaphor is through the easy_install tool:
- Download and install easy_install (follow the link for instructions).
- Download and install the latest version of Gaphor by executing (use -U switch to update):
$ easy_install -U gaphor
- Launch Gaphor
Alternatively, you can download the latest version of Gaphor from the Python Cheeseshop: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/gaphor.
FreeBSD users can find Gaphor in their ports tree (devel/gaphor), although you might prefer the easy_install solution.
Windows users can download gaphor-0.8.1-win32.zip from the Sourceforge download area. You have to download and install Python 2.4 separately from http://python.org.
Older releases can be found in the Sourceforge download area.
Gaphas
The latest release of Gaphas (Gaphor's canvas component) can be found at the Python Cheeseshop: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/gaphas.
Gaphas is available as .tar.gz and as Python Egg (install using easy_install as described above).
Cutting edge
Those of you who do not fear can download the latest version from the Subversion repository.
The repository is located at http://svn.devjavu.com/gaphor.
The latest code is located at http://svn.devjavu.com/gaphor/gaphor/trunk (Gaphor) and http://svn.devjavu.com/gaphor/gaphas/trunk (Gaphas).
Gaphor uses PEAK's setuptools, a superset of Pythons distutils. Setuptools will automatically be downloaded and installed if not already available. You might not want to let setuptools install stuff in your system's site-packages directory. We recommend setting up a CustomInstallationLocation for your python packages.
Installation from source (.tar.gz)
To install Gaphor from source:
- unzip (/untar) the Gaphor archive
- enter the directory gaphor-x.x.x and do a
$ python setup.py install
In order to run Gaphor without installing:
- unzip (/untar) the Gaphor archive
- enter the directory gaphor-x.x.x and do a
$ python setup.py develop $ ./run-gaphor.sh
The develop target only has to be executed once, so Gaphor's package dependencies are downloaded and installed. after that the run-gaphor.sh script will suffice.
Windows users should not need to install Gaphor at all, but have to download the gaphor-win32-libs package from Subversion and place in the directory gaphor-x.x.x.
