Grassyknoll

Grassyknoll is packaged using distutils and is available from the Cheeseshop. easy_install/setuptools are required. You can also download a source tarball. Also see platform-specific notes. There's also a git mirror.

You must build PyLucene by hand, see below.

Trunk 0.4

RECOMMENDED

Follow svn checkout instructions. Then run: easy_install grassyknoll-read-only/

Stable Release 0.3

For the impatient: easy_install GrassyKnoll.

Ignore spurious errors.

PyLucene

Grab a copy of PyLucene from OSAF for your platform. You must use the JCC version, 2.3 or greater. Binaries are available for some platforms.

Building from source

Since the move to JCC, building PyLucene is far easier. Build notes follow, but please refer to the documentation.

1. easy_install jcc
2. grab the latest source tarball and unpack
3. cd PyLucene-2.3.1-1/
4. uncomment the relevant section of the Makefile for your platform. If you've installed Java somewhere unusual, edit as needed.
5. make
6. make test
7. make install

Installing Java

On linux you may need to install several java packages prior to building PyLucene. apt-get the following:

• sun-java6-jdk
• sun-java6-jre
• ant
• python2.5-dev
• build-essentials