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Dabo Installation Notes

Prerequisites:

  • Python (we recommend 3.10 or later)
  • wxPython 4.2.2 or later
  • pymysql (only to run the MySQL-based demos or for your project)
  • reportlab (only to run reports)
  • PIL (only to run reports) (also known as Imaging or the Python Imaging Library)
    • the Pillow package is a PIL-compatible fork.

Installation:

It's best to use a modern tool such as poetry or uv to handle installation. The manual methods listed below were from the original Dabo release, and may or may not work today. But I'm including them in case they're helpful.

  • Windows: run win_setup.bat
  • Mac or Linux: Execute the following shell command: sudo python setup.py install

Having Problems Installing?

This is also old advice!

If you have trouble installing, and for whatever reason the setup.py doesn't work, just add a file named dabo.pth to your site-packages directory, with the path to dabo such as /home/pmcnett/projects/dabo.

If you are on Linux and got the following error:

error: invalid Python installation: unable to open /usr/lib/python3.6/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)

and you really want to get setup.py to install dabo for you, you need to install the python-dev package. For instance (on Debian):

apt-get install python3.6-dev

(assuming you are running python3.6; change the version number as appropriate).

There are some problems with some of the third-party libraries like PIL when running in a mixed 32/64 bit environment, such as Mac OSX. While everything can be made to work running 64-bit versions of everything, if you are havingtrouble it may be worth trying to install 32-bit Python, wxPython, etc. Note: to run python in 32-bit on Mac, use python-32 as the command instead of python.