Installing PyBridge

PyBridge has been tested on the GNU/Linux and MS Windows platforms. It may work under other operating systems, but these are untested.

Installing on Linux
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Thanks to David Watson, packages for PyBridge are available for Debian (lenny, squeeze, testing, sid). These packages are also available for Ubuntu (7.10 and up), in the Universe package repository.

To install the PyBridge client, open a terminal and type:
 sudo aptitude install pybridge

To install the PyBridge server, type:
 sudo aptitude install pybridge-server

A menu entry for PyBridge will be created in Applications > Games.

Installing on Windows
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The PyBridge client is packaged as a Windows executable, together with all required dependencies.

Installing from source
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Before attempting to run PyBridge from source, please check that your system has all the required dependencies installed.

PyBridge can be run directly from source. To do so, open a terminal, change to the directory where you unpacked the source tarball, and type:
 bin/pybridge

You should only install PyBridge if you need it to be available to all users of your system. To install PyBridge from source, change to the directory where you unpacked the source tarball, then type:
 sudo python setup.py install