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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 94441f84e..7abf4613b 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -20,6 +20,41 @@ Compatibility PySide requires Python 2.6 or later and Qt 4.6 or better. +Installation +============ + +Installing PySide on a Windows System +------------------------------------- + +There are two options to install PySide on Windows: + +#. Download and install the packages from the `releases page + <http://releases.qt-project.org/pyside/>`. + +#. Use setuptools: + + :: + + c:\> c:\Python27\Scripts\easy_install PySide + c:\> c:\Python27\python.exe c:\Python27\Scripts\pyside_postinstall.py -install + + Note that the post-install procedure is not needed when installing via installer. + The installer calls the pyside_postinstall.py script automatically. + +Installing PySide on a UNIX System +---------------------------------- + +There are no prebuild setuptools distributions available for UNIX System. +To build and install setuptools compatible distributions for UNIX System, +please read the instruction in section ``Building PySide on a UNIX System``. + +Using pip vs easy_install +------------------------- + +Pip can install only from source (it does not support binary distributions) and allways rebuilds the distribution +before the distribution is installed to system. For that reason the recommended tool to install the ``PySide`` +is easy_install. + Building PySide on a Windows System =================================== |