Install

Dependencies

• Linux kernel ≥ 2.6.13
• Python ≥ 2.4
• A libc with inotify's binding
• ctypes module (part of standard library since Python 2.5 and can be installed on Python 2.4 through this module)

Install Pyinotify on Python 2.4+

1. Make sure easy_install is installed:

   sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
   # or alternatively
   wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
   sudo python ez_setup.py

2. Install pyinotify:

   sudo easy_install pyinotify

3. Check pyinotify is working alright [run pyinotify from command line and watch /tmp (default watched directory)]

   python -m pyinotify -v

Install Pyinotify on Python 3.x

Python 3 brings lot of changes it currently seems impossible to maintain a single code for all Python versions >= 2.4. If you intend to use Pyinotify with Python versions >= 3.0 then you should proceed like this:

1. Download Pyinotify 0.8.9+ or a snapshot
2. Uncompress it, cd to its root directory then for instance assuming your target Python interpreter is Python3.1 type:

   sudo python3.1 setup.py install 

Generate Documentation

You can browse the documentation online or you can generate it directly from the source code with Epydoc:

1. Install a recent version of Epydoc (package python-epydoc on Debian/Ubuntu systems)
2. Run this command:

   make doc

3. It should have generated a bunch of html files under docstrings/