How to install swan?

This section covers only POSIX systems so far.

The swan package depends on Glade, pyGTK with glade support, as well as on Matplotlib/pylab and on NumPy.

On my system (Ubuntu GNU/Linux), you can install all this stuff with the following command:

sudo apt-get install python-gtk2 python-glade2 python-numpy python-matplotlib

Now, with the dependencies resolved, download the latest release from the PyPI repository. Unpack the tarball where you usually do so:

tar zxf swan-x.x.x.tar.gz
cd swan-x.x.x

Run the distutils setup script:

sudo python setup.py install

If there were no error messages, swan should be installed now.