Update INSTALL for the new world order

And add a todo.txt note about documenting the translation process, and
how to update translations.
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Cole Robinson 2013-04-03 18:35:30 -04:00
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Basic Install
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Basic Install
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To build virt-manager, run the command:
For starters, if you just want to run virt-manager/virt-install to test out
changes, it can be done from the source directory:
./autogen.sh && ./configure && make
./virt-manager
You can then run virt-manager in the source directory with
To install the software into /usr/local (usually), you can do:
python src/virt-manager.py
To install the software into /usr/local (usually), you can then run:
make install
python setup.py install
To build an RPM, you can run:
make rpm
python setup.py run
virt-manager generally requires the latest upstream version of
python-virtinst, which checked out with
setup.py generally has all the build and install commands, for more info see:
git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/python-virtinst.git
If you want to replace your system installed virt-manager version,
add --prefix=/usr to ./configure. Please see the INSTALL.autotools file
for much more information about install options.
python setup.py --help-commands
python setup.py install --help
http://docs.python.org/inst/standard-install.html

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setup.py rpm: drop hardcoding rpm version, specify it with rpmbuild
setup.py rpm: dump output in sourcedir, or dist/
INSTALL docs about python setup.py refresh_translations from virtinst,
or whatever the distutils extra equiv is. or update po/README,
or have a TRANSLATORS file, or update HACKING, etc. see what other
projects do.
Problems in other packages
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