Installation for Debian

To install this package under Debian, you just need to do a few small things and can use the standard apt-get tools. You have to use a debian stable, though, as the packages are not available for newer distributions (or older ones). If your Debian installation is to old or to new or you don't use Debian, just read the Installation from Source.

The first thing is to add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://simon.bofh.ms/~gb/debian/ ./

Now you just need to run the following two commands::

apt-get update
apt-get install pyds

The system should pull in several python2.2 packages. Most packages are just backports of standard debian unstable packages, but docutils, cheetah, medusa and pyds itself are built by me. After this installation you have a standard pyds installation and can now start a pyds instance with the following command::

pyds-start

Go on from here as you would with other installations. After your system is running, you can usually access it with http://localhost:4334/.

If you want to use the latest CVS version of the Python Desktop Server, you can get it with the following repository entry:

deb http://simon.bofh.ms/~gb/debian-dev ./

Please keep in mind that the CVS snapshots are created hourly by a cronjob, so they might break, might contain bugs or bad code. They might work, too