HowToInstall

1. summary How to install
2. labels Featured,Tutorial,Version1

_(This page applies only to the 1.x branch of SVGFig.)_

How to install

1. Download the latest version of SVGFig from the [http://code.google.com/p/svgfig/downloads/list Downloads tab].
2. Unpack the archive (your browser might do this automatically). In Unix/Linux, the command is

tar -xzvf svgfig-x.y.z.tgz

1. Run the installer script, =setup.py=, with Python.

cd svgfig/
python setup.py install

1. To install in your home directory (e.g. if you don't have superuser privileges)

python setup.py install --home=~

1. Now you should be able to load the svgfig library in Python:

Python 2.4.3 (#2, Oct  6 2006, 07:52:30) 
[GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import svgfig

Known problems (and solutions)

None yet.