Howto install Scato for UNIX

• Howto install Scato for UNIX
• Requirements
• Install
• Run without installation

Requirements

Scato require Python version 2.3 - 2.6 (2.6 preferable) and Tkinter library, that included in most Python distributions.

Install

Scato was packaged and distributed in the standard way, i.e. using the Python Distutils. So it can installed how described in Python documentation.

You need to do some commands like this:

tar xzf scato-VER.tgz    # unpack
cd scato-VER             # go to dist dir
python setup.py build    # build
sudo -s                  # get root privileges
python setup.py install  # install

Now you can just run it

$ scato

See help menu for command line options.

Run without installation

You also can run Scato without installation. Just unpack it, change current directory to the distribution, and do something like this (assumed sh/bash):

$ PYTHONPATH=`pwd` python script/scato

Enjoy!