Installation instructions

Linux and MAC Installation

Warning

These methods require either setuptools

or pip to already be installed on the system.

For system installation administrative privileges are necessary.

Easy way to install

$> easy_install pywinktransporter

or

$> pip install pywinktransporter

If you wish to install from the tarball:

$> easy_install PyWinkTransporter-0.XXX.tar.gz

or

$> pip install PyWinkTransporter-0.XXX.tar.gz

Brute force install (will require other packages to be installed)

Download the tarball.

$> tar -xzf PyWinkTransporter-0.XXX.tar.gz
$> cd PyWinkTransporter-0.XXX
$> python setup.py install

Windows Installation

Warning

For system installation administrative privileges are necessary.

If you install as an Administrator, but run as a different user, some of the python packages

will be installed with privileges that may not allow you to use them. If this is the case,

you may have to browse to C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages in Windows Explorer

and modify the security/permissions for packages like setuptools and/or pip.

1. Install Python 2.7 from here: Python 2.7
2. Download and install setuptools for Python 2.7 from here: setuptools
3. Open a command window and cd to C:\Python27\Scripts
4. Use easy_install.exe to install the program like this:

C:\Python27\Scripts>easy_install.exe pywinktransporter

5. Afterwards, run the program like this:

C:\Python27\Scripts>pywinktransporter.exe

If you want to use it without changing directories, add C:\Python27\Scripts to your path.