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Installation
------------

Couchapp requires Python 2.5x or sup. To install couchapp using
easy_install you must make sure you have a recent version of distribute
installed::
Couchapp requires Python 2.5x or greater. Couchapp is most easily installed
using the latest versions of the standard python packaging tools, setuptools
and pip. They may be installed like so::

$ curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
$ sudo python distribute_setup.py
$ easy_install pip
$ curl -O https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py
$ sudo python ez_setup.py
$ curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
$ sudo python get-pip.py

To install or upgrade to the latest released version of couchapp::
Installing couchapp is then simply a matter of::

$ pip install couchapp

On OSX 10.6/10.7 you may need to set ARCH_FLAGS::

$ env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" pip install couchapp

To install/upgrade development version::
To install/upgrade a development version of couchapp::

$ pip install git+http://github.com/couchapp/couchapp.git#egg=Couchapp
$ pip install -e git+http://github.com/couchapp/couchapp.git#egg=Couchapp

Note: some installations need to use *sudo* command beafore each command
line.

Note on debian system don't forget to install python-dev.
Note: on debian system don't forget to install python-dev.

To install on windows follow instructions `here
<http://www.couchapp.org/page/windows-python-installers>`_.
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