Installing python-openzwave from repositories

Install the needed tools

You must install mercurial and subversion to get sources of python-openzwave and openzwave. Look at the documentation of your Linux distribution to do that.

On a debian like distribution :

sudo apt-get install mercurial subversion python-pip python-dev

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 it using pip.

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

You need sphinx and make to generate the documentation.

On a debian like distribution :

sudo apt-get install python-sphinx make

You also need to install some sphinx contributions :

sudo pip install sphinxcontrib-blockdiag sphinxcontrib-actdiag
sudo pip install sphinxcontrib-nwdiag sphinxcontrib-seqdiag

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++

Get sources of python-openzwave

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

hg clone https://code.google.com/p/python-openzwave/

The previous command will create a copy of the official repository on your computer in a directory called python-openzwave.

Update and build process

Go to the previously created directory

cd python-openzwave

The following command will update your local repository to the last release of python-openzwave and openzwave.

./update.sh

When update process is done, 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

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