Installing python-openzwave from repositories

Install the needed tools

You need cython (0.14) to compile the python library (libopenzwave.pyx). Some users have reported errors when using 0.16 or 0.17. Some 64 bits users reports segfault when using examples. Seems that using cython 0.15 was the problem. Gentoo users : don’t use cython that is shipped with your distribution.

Install pip

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev

And use it to install cython.

sudo pip install cython==0.14

You also need some python modules, on a debian like distribution :

sudo apt-get install python-dev python-setuptools python-louie

To compile the openzwave library, you need the common builds tools and the libudev developments headers.

On a debian like distribution :

sudo apt-get install build-essential libudev-dev g++ make

Get archive of python-openzwave

You are now ready to download sources of python-openzwave here :

http://code.google.com/p/python-openzwave/downloads/list

This archive contains sources of python-openzwave and openzwave.

tar xvzf python-openzwave-X.Y.Z.tar.gz

This command will extract all the needed sources.

Build process

Go to the previously created directory :

cd python-openzwave-X.Y.Z.tar.gz

Now, you can compile sources :

./compile.sh

Or if you have already build python-openzwave in a previous installation, you can use the clean option to remove old builds.

./compile.sh clean

Installation

You can now install the packages using the following command will.

sudo ./install.sh

The installation script create a list of installed files. So you can remove python-openzwave using the following command :

sudo ./uninstall.sh