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Latest ObsPy version via SVN (recommended for developers)

This installation method will install the latest developer version from ObsPy and requires on your computer:

• a SVN client,
• a preconfigured C/Fortran compiler,
• certain system libraries and header files (e.g. Python header files ...).

Checkout the latest developer version using a SVN client on the command line:

svn checkout https://svn.obspy.org/trunk obspy

Make sure you have a recent version of distribute installed:

easy_install -U distribute

If you are working with an virtual Python environment the above might fail and you have to install distribute from source (see also  here):

cd /tmp
curl -O http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.24.tar.gz
tar -xzvf distribute-0.6.24.tar.gz
cd distribute-0.6.24
python setup.py install --prefix=/path/to/virtual/environment  # e.g. --prefix=$HOME/local

All ObsPy packages must now be linked to the current Python instance by running the following command within each module. The commands must be executed as root or within a virtual environment (see link above):

python setup.py develop -N -U

Note: Calling python setup.py develop in each module is quite a workout. Therefore we provide simple helper scripts develop.sh in the trunk/misc/scripts directory.