Install via an egg

This is the recommended method. Installing via eggs will also install Soho's requirements for you.

If you need to install easy_install, see easy_install installation page. If you do not want to bother reading this page, here is a shorter how-to:

$ wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
$ python ez_setup.py

Now that you are ready:

1. Make sure that your easy_install installation is up to date by running:

   $ easy_install -U setuptools
   

2. Then run the following command:

   $ easy_install soho
   

That's it.

Install "the old way"

If you do not want to use easy_install, you can use the "traditional" method:

1. Download sources (either from the tarball or from the SVN repository).

2. Run:

   $ python setup.py build
   

3. And then run (you may need to be a super-user to do that):

   $ python setup.py install
   

Test your installation

You should now have:

• a new soho Python library which you can import:

>>> import soho

• a soho program which may or may not be in your path, depending on your installation.