Installation instructions for any installation directory.

Updated README.md contents so that installation instructions cover
not only the common case for installation directory, i.e. `~/.pyenv`
but any other at the user's choice.
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Antonio Perez Barrero 2013-08-28 08:33:18 +02:00
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This will get you going with the latest version of pyenv and make it
easy to fork and contribute any changes back upstream.
1. Check out pyenv into `~/.pyenv`.
1. Check out pyenv where you want it installed. A good place to choose is
`$HOME/.pyenv` but you may install it somewhere else.
$ cd
$ git clone git://github.com/yyuu/pyenv.git .pyenv
2. Add `~/.pyenv/bin` to your `$PATH` for access to the `pyenv`
command-line utility.
$ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.pyenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
2. Define environment variable `PYENV_ROOT` to point to the path where
pyenv repo is cloned and add `$PYENV_ROOT/bin` to your `$PATH` for access
to the `pyenv` command-line utility.
$ echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ echo 'export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
**Zsh note**: Modify your `~/.zshenv` file instead of `~/.bash_profile`.
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$ exec $SHELL
5. Install Python versions into `~/.pyenv/versions`. For example, to
5. Install Python versions into `$PYENV_ROOT/versions`. For example, to
install Python 2.7.5, download and unpack the source, then run:
$ pyenv install 2.7.5