Installing Portmod
Python
Portmod requires Python 3.7 or later.
Build dependencies
Since portmod 2.0 beta5, portmod compiles a rust extension using setuptools-rust and pyo3. As such source installations of Portmod requires a rust compiler (1.58+). If you are installing using a pre-compiled wheel from pypi (which, as long as a wheel for your platform is available, is usually what is installed when using pip), you do not need a rust compiler to install.
Python Dependencies
Can be installed through pip, or via your package manager. When installing using the pip commands given later in this file these will be installed automatically.
patool: http://wummel.github.io/patool/
Archive manager
Note that patool relies on helper programs to handle may file types, you will need these programs installed and in your PATH to be able to extract files of types not supported natively by patool (built-in types include TAR, ZIP, BZIP2 and GZIP). Archive types encountered by Portmod vary, but you probably want to have tools that can handle at least RAR, 7z and XZ archives.
colorama
appdirs
black
GitPython
progressbar2 >= 3.2
pywin32 - Windows only
RestrictedPython >= 4.0
redbaron
python-sat
requests
chardet
importlib_metadata (for python 3.7)
packaging
fasteners >= 0.16
argcomplete (optional)
Documentation
Portmod also includes sphinx documentation. This can produce a number of different output formats. On Linux and macOS, portmod will build man pages if sphinx and sphinx-argparse are available.
To build other formats, you can use sphinx-build within the doc directory, or invoke sphinx-build via the included Makefile.
E.g.
make -C doc html man
sphinx
sphinx-argparse
sphinx_rtd_theme (html only)
sphinx-autodoc-typehints (html only)
Installation Methods
Also see the following pages for platform-specific installation information
Package Manager
The recommended way of installing portmod is to install it through your system package manager, if possible.
Pip
If your system package manager doesn’t include portmod, you can also
install via pip. Note that the --upgrade
flag is used to ensure that
you have the latest version.
pip3 install portmod --upgrade
Development Version
The recommended way to install the development version of Portmod is by pointing pip directly at the repository. Note that this version may be more unstable than the releases.
pip3 install git+https://gitlab.com/portmod/portmod
If you want to make changes to portmod, you probably want to instead create a local clone of the git repository and work with that version. See Developer Setup for Portmod for details.
Command Line Completion
Portmod supports command line tab completion using
argcomplete. Since Portmod
uses entry points, the global autocompletion used by argcomplete doesn’t
work, so you need to register scripts individually by including the
following line in ~/.bashrc
.
eval "$(register-python-argcomplete portmod)"
Other Supported shells include (see argcomplete readme for details):
zsh
tcsh
fish
git bash (I.e. for Windows. Requires additional configuration compared to regular bash shells)