Download

To the right, you'll find the download links you need, whether you're building from source or installing a package. Deb packages are in no way official, until a Debian maintainer picks up this reader, but should work for both Debian and Ubuntu.

If you're interested in being bleeding edge, you can download the source straight from the git repo with this command:

        $ git clone http://codezen.org/src/canto.git
        

Manual Install

Installing by hand is very easy since Canto uses the standard Python distutils. This is documented in the INSTALL file inside the tarball.

Untar

        $ tar -xvf canto-version.tar.gz
        

Install

        $ cd canto-version
        $ sudo python setup.py install
        

Or, run without installing

        $ cd canto-version
        $ ./runhere.sh
        

This will install canto to the root of your filesystem. Alternatively, if you don't want to install Canto, or don't have permissions to install Canto, you can untar the source and run ./runhere.sh and try Canto without leaving the source directory.

        $ export PATH="$PATH:/home/myuser/canto-root/bin"
        $ export PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:/home/myuser/canto-root/usr/lib/site-packages"
         

        $ export MANPATH="$MANPATH:/home/myuser/canto-root/share/man"
         

Requirements

• NCurses >=5.5 with wide-char support (ncursesw)
• Python >= 2.4.0 (tested on 2.5)
• feedparser
• chardet

Platforms

• GNU/Linux x86, amd64 are tested.
• Any architecture should work.
• Any OS supporting Python/C/Ncursesw should work.
• OpenBSD may not be supported due to curses tweaking.