Installing Dexen

• Installing Dexen
• Versions
• Pre-requisites
• Windows
• Linux
• Starting Dexen

Versions

These instructions are for installation of Dexen using dexen-0.3.4.tar.gz. This is the plain 'vanilla' version of Dexen.

If you are going to use Dexen together with Houdini, then it may be easier to install Dexen using one of the special Houdini versions: either dexen-32-hou-0.3.4.x.zip (for Windows 32) or dexen-64-hou-0.3.4.x.zip (for Windows 64). In this case, please just unzip these files and follow the instructions in the readme file.

Pre-requisites

• Python 2.5, 2.6 or 2.7, http://www.python.org/download/releases/

Windows

Installation using source tarball (.tar.gz):

• Untar the tar using a program like 7zip. A folder named dexen-0.3.x will be created.
• Open a command prompt.
• Cd into the root folder dexen-0.3.x.
• Type python setup.py install (Note that this assumes that python is on the windows PATH).

After the installation:

• The library and data folders are created in $PYTHONHOME\Lib\site-packages\dexen-0.3.x. (e.g. c:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\dexen-0.3.x).
• Three scripts: dexen-server.py, dexen-node.py, dexen-cli.py are created in $PYTHONHOME\Scripts (e.g. c:\Python26\Scripts).

Linux

Installation using source tarball (.tar.gz):

    $ tar xvfz dexen-0.3.x.tar.gz
    $ cd dexen-0.3.x
    $ sudo python setup.py install (as root)

Note: sudo is needed because the installation needs to have a root access since dexen is installed under the directory /usr/local/lib/python2.x/dist-packages/dexen-0.3.x by default.

After the installation:

• The library and example folders are created in /usr/local/lib/python2.x/dist-packages/dexen-0.3.x.
• The scripts 'dexen-server.py', 'dexen-node.py' and 'dexen-cli.py' are created in /usr/local/bin.

Starting Dexen

The scripts are like the executables. To run dexen, the user needs to run those scripts. See Starting Dexen for more details.