Installation¶
Dependencies¶
In order to build and run pyfuse3 you need the following software:
- Linux kernel 3.9 or newer.
- Version 3.3.0 or newer of the libfuse library, including development headers (typically distributions provide them in a libfuse3-devel or libfuse3-dev package).
- Python 3.5 or newer installed with development headers
- The Trio Python module, version 0.7 or newer.
- The setuptools Python module, version 1.0 or newer.
- the pkg-config tool
- the attr library
- A C compiler (only for building)
To run the unit tests, you will need
- The py.test Python module, version 3.3.0 or newer
Stable releases¶
To install a stable pyfuse3 release:
- Download and unpack the release tarball from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyfuse3/
- Run
python3 setup.py build_ext --inplace
to build the C extension - Run
python3 -m pytest test/
to run a self-test. If this fails, ask for help on the FUSE mailing list or report a bug in the issue tracker. - To install system-wide for all users, run
sudo python setup.py install
. To install into~/.local
, runpython3 setup.py install --user
.
Development Version¶
If you have checked out the unstable development version, a bit more effort is required. You need to also have Cython (0.28.1 or newer) and Sphinx (1.1 or newer) installed, and the necessary commands are:
python3 setup.py build_cython
python3 setup.py build_ext --inplace
python3 -m pytest test/
python3 setup.py build_sphinx
python3 setup.py install