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	blubbi	2010-01-25 , 11:58
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Originally Posted by Big Phat Jan

This is very simple to install from the developer's site. Just download the latest version 3.0 release, extract, cd into the extracted directory, and then:
Code:
python setup.py build
sudo gainroot
python setup.py install
exit
Working fine for me.

Cheers,
Jan

Well this is suitable for DEVS, but no enduser will install it this way.

If you write software which depends on python-beautifulsoup, you'll have to build a package for all dependencies of you software.

Thought this is only on .py file you could just include it in your project. But I would encourage you to build a package! This way not everybody has to include this .py file but can make use of the package you kindly ported to Maemo ;-)

How to quickly port a python package:

Add the Debain repositories to you /etc/apt/sources.list

Code:

#Debian Stable
#deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
#deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

#Debian Testing
#deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
#deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

#Debian Unstable
#deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

Update the repo:

Code:

apt-get update

Get the source:

Code:

apt-get source python-${package}

Alter the "Debian/control" file:

Code:

Source: python-${package}
Maintainer: You
XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Original Maintainer
Depends: (Add pymaemo-optify)
Section: user/development

Update the "Debian/changelog" file.

Check the Debian/rules file

Test the package:
Maemo 5 Developer Guide - Packaging Deploying and Distributing - Creating Debian Packages

If it fails check the "Debian/rules" file.

If it builds, upload it to the autobuilder:
Maemo Extras Assistant - Step 1

Thats not that hard, is it?

Cheers
Bjoern

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