Warning: please do _not_ run setup.py.  This script is intended for internal use only.  I haven't found a way to delete it from the distribution.

Installing leo.py
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Important note: You can install leo.py on Windows using the single-click installer called leosetup.exe.

leo.py 3.9 requires Python 2.1 and tcl/tk 8.3 or above.

	Download Python from http://python.org/ 
	Download tcl/Tk from http://tcl.activestate.com/software/tcltk/

Warning: When building Tcl on Linux, do not specify "--enable-threads" . Only use Tcl with the default "threads not enabled" case.

Leo is distributed as a single compressed folder.  Simply uncompress this folder and run leo.py.  You can run leo.py by double-clicking leo.py.  You can also run leo.py from a Python interpreter as follows:

	import leo
	leo.run() # runs leo.py, opening a new outline.
	leo.go() # runs leo.py after reloading all modules.
	leo.leoOpen(fileName) # runs leo.py, reloads all modules, and opens fileName.

You may specify options using the configuration file called leoConfig.txt.  You should generate this file using leoConfig.leo.Using shell scripts and batch files to make using Leo easier
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On Linux, the following shell script will allow you to open foo.leo files by typing leo foo

#!/bin/sh 
python <leopath>/leo.py $1

where <leopath> is replaced with the path to the leo directory. 

On Windows, the equivalent batch file would be:

c:\python22\python <leopath>leo.py %1



Installing the Borland version of Leo
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The Icons folder contains two Icons, called LeoApp and LeoDoc, that represent the Leo application and Leo documents respectively.

In Windows, to associate LeoDoc with .leo files, open the Setting:Folder Options:File Type panel, create an entry for .leo files.  Then choose Change Icon and select the LeoDoc icon.  Associate leo.py as the application to open .leo files.



Installing leo.py on MacOs
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Bruce M. Bolden, bruceb@cs.uidaho.edu, is using Leo on MaxOS X.  Here is his description of how to get Leo working there:

I installed: 
- Latest OS X Developer tools
- latest (as of about two weeks ago) tk/tcl
         MacOSXTk8.4a4-2.tar.gz
- the machopython distribution
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxpython/MachoPython-2.2.1.dmg

For OS X 10.1, I followed the directions at:
    http://tony.lownds.com/macosx/tkinter.html

That worked fine for 10.1, but didn't work for 10.2.  It
took awhile to find a Python distribution that worked
correctly with tk/tcl.

I was just getting into Leo about a week before 10.2 was released and thought about---what if it breaks....10.2 broke it, but I was able to find a solution as described above.


More re MacOS from Bruce Bolden
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I just finished building tk successfully!  The magic step was the execution of the command

cp ../generic/prolog.ps to ../library/prolog.ps

AFTER 

cd ../../tk/macosx

in the instructions on "Steps to build Tcl/Tk 8.4.0 on MacOS X":

http://mini.net/tcl/4052

I found this solution while looking at the tcl-mac mailing list archive.  The earlier (current?) tar ball on SourceForge did not have the file prolog.ps in the library directory:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1060496&forum_id=3853

Copy and Paste seem to work just fine now in Leo!  This was my original question for you.

I also noticed that someone else built everything on OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), but they did it under X.  Since, the new version of Tk appears to support the OS X interface quite well, I'm not going to bother installing X (for now).

So, Leo works two different ways on OS X 10.2.