Installation help

Minimum Requirements

A Windows or Unix-like (includes Linux, *BSD and OS X) operating system
If you need a GUI: OpenGL capability (loads of RAM and a fast processor will speed up a bit)

Dependencies

Python > 2.3.0
Numeric Python > 22.0
we use numpy, not the newer numarray.
recent versions of PyOpenGL need numarray, so if you got problems with Numeric, just install both numpy & numarray.
PyOpenGL > 2.0.1.0
On Windows, you need OpenGL and GLUT.
You can get a GLUT DLL from the Nate Robins homepage.
Install the DLL (after extracting from a zip file) into you \$WIN\System\ folder.

Package selection

If you don't know what you want, choose
wesen-0.5.tar.gz for Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and other Unices,
wesen-0.5.exe for all Windows systems.
If you want documentation,
wesen.doc-0.1.tar.gz contains all user documentation;
wesen.ref-0.1.tar.gz is a packed version of help from docstrings.
As developer, you should use direct CVS access.
You can browse the CVS directly via SourceForge or,
if you experience problems, request a CVS copy by mail.

Installation

Unix (Linux,BSD,OSX)

Download the right package somewhere.
Extract it. You can do this with

gunzip packagename
tar -xf packagename

change directory to the new folder
hint: packagename and then foldername should be "wesen-0.5"
type "python setup.py install" as root
run it by calling "wesen" (as user)
report the dirty bugs to us ;-)

Windows

Download the right package somewhere.
Double-click on the .exe file.
Do everything the installer tells you.
Double-click on the nice desktop icon.