Installation

This section is a short overview of the build and installation procedure of MychemAdmin.

Requirements

MychemAdmin is written in Python and requires the following software:

  • Python - Python is a powerful programming language. You can get it from the Python website. MychemAdmin has been successfully tested with Python 2.4 and Python 2.5.

  • MySQLdb - a Python module that handle MySQL connection. You can download it from the project home page.

  • PyQt4 - Python binding for Qt4. The software is available from the Riverbank website .

Compilation and Installation

The installation of MychemAdmin is based on the setup.py script. This uses distutils; the standard Python mechanism for installing packages. For the easiest installation just enter the command:

# python setup.py install
      

For more details about the available options, look at the Installing Python Modules distutils documentation, available from: http://www.python.org/sigs/distuils-sig/doc/