Installing PyCAM Linux/Unix

Installing on Linux/unix

Install the following packages with your package manager:

python

python-gtk2

python-opengl

python-gtkglext1

python-pyode        (optional)

python-setproctitle (optional)

python-psyco        (optional)

On a debian or ubuntu system you would just type the following in a root console:

apt-get install python-gtkglext1 python-opengl python-gtk2 python-pyode python-setproctitle python-psyco

Please note that you need to enable the "universe" repository in Ubuntu.

BEWARE: Debian "Lenny" and Ubuntu "Jaunty" (maybe also Dapper/Hardy/Intrepid)

contain older "python-opengl" and "python-pyode" packages, that expose problems

with PyCAM.

You need to add "Squeeze" (for Debian) or "Karmic/Lucid" (for Ubuntu) to your

package repository list and run the following:

apt-get update

apt-get install python-pyode python-opengl

Afterwards you can remove the new package repository again.

Users of Python 2.5 with multiple CPU cores may want to install the package

"python-processing". This enables multi-threading for Python before v2.6.