1.3 Installation

The following steps describe the installation of PyXPlot from a .tar.gz archive. It is assumed that the packages listed above have already been installed.

• Unpack the distributed .tar.gz:

  tar xvfz pyxplot_0.5.7.tar.gz
  cd pyxplot
  

• Run the installation script:

  ./configure
  make
  make install
  

  where the final step needs to be executed as root. By default, the PyXPlot executable installs to /usr/local/bin/pyxplot. If desired, this installation path may be modified in the file Makefile.skel, by changing the variable USRDIR in the first line to an alternative desired installation location. This will be necessary for users who do not have root access to their machines, for example.

• Finally, start PyXPlot:

  pyxplot