INSTALL

PREREQUISITIES
==============

pygsod requires Python, which comes preinstalled on most Unix machines. 

You can check to see if you have it installed on a Unix machine by typing Python at a command prompt.
A result like this and you have Python istalled

    Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Oct  9 2010, 11:40:09) 
    [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>>

This however means that there is any problem

    bash: python: command not found

You can download Python from http://www.python.org/download/releases/

INSTALL
========

Download the last stable version from Github


Now decompress the archivie

    tar -xzf pygsod.tar.gz


Enter inside the new directory

    cd pygsod


Install the library with root permission

    su
    python setup.py install


on Ubuntu

    sudo python setup.py install


Now we can try to load the library so

    python

    Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Oct  9 2010, 11:40:09) 
    [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import pygsod

with this response it is all ok

    >>>

instead with this one, you must check the installation

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    ImportError: No module named downgsod