Title:  Lyntin Installation Document
Author: Will Guaraldi

VERSION
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$Id: INSTALL,v 1.6 2003/11/22 21:45:42 willhelm Exp $

For more up-to-date documentation, check out the web-site at:
http://lyntin.sourceforge.net/



SUMMARY
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This document holds installation instructions for various operating
systems as well as a series of general setup instructions for getting
started with Lyntin.

There are separate instructions for UNIX/LINUX and for WINDOWS.  Read
the appropriate one for your system.


UNIX/LINUX
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Requirements:

1. Python 2.2 (with Tkinter if you want to use the tkui) 
   http://www.python.org/
2. tar
3. gzip


Steps:

Untar and unzip the client.  Then run:

   python setup.py install

That'll install the "runlyntin" script into /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin 
depending on how you have Python installed.  

Lyntin takes both command-line options as well as a config file.  A 
sample config file looks like this:

%<------------------
[Lyntin]
ui:        text
datadir:   /home/willg/ltd40
moduledir: /home/willg/ltd40
read:      http://www.bluesock.org/~willg/3krc
%<------------------

To start Lyntin with the config file do this:

   runlyntin -c /path/to/config.ini

Lyntin takes a series of command-line options.  For a list of basic 
options and explanations, run:

   runlyntin --help


WINDOWS
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Requirements:

1. Python 2.2 http://www.python.org/


Steps:

1. Make sure you have at least Python 2.2.
2. Run the installer which will install the Lyntin libraries and
   standard modules into the site-packages directory of your
   Python installation.
3. Download the startup script runlyntin.pyw from the website.
4. Adjust the boot settings in the startup script to suit your 
   needs.



If you have problems with installation, see the website on how to 
contact us and ask questions.

Good luck!

the Lyntin development folks
http://lyntin.sourceforge.net/