Merge pull request #54 from apbarrero/alternative_install

Installation instructions for any installation directory.
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Yamashita, Yuu 2013-08-28 00:18:45 -07:00
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@ -146,15 +146,19 @@ If you're on Mac OS X, consider
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`.
@ -169,7 +173,7 @@ easy to fork and contribute any changes back upstream.
$ 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