Plasma Installation Guide

Plasma requires Python 2.5 or newer. Python 3.0 isn’t supported yet.

Manual Installation

Step 1

Download and unpack the Plasma archive of your choice:

tar zxfv Plasma-<version>.tar.gz
cd Plasma-<version>

Step 2

Run the Python-typical setup at the top of the source directory from a command-prompt:

python setup.py install

This will byte-compile the Python source code and install it in the site-packages directory of your Python installation.

You can run the unit tests like this:

nosetests

Advanced Options

To find out about other advanced installation options, run:

easy_install --help

Also see Installing Python Modules for detailed information.

To install Plasma to a custom location:

easy_install --prefix=/path/to/installdir