Install

Dependencies

• Linux kernel with inotify ≥ 2.6.13
• Python ≥ 2.4

Install Pyinotify

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

   python -m pyinotify -v /tmp  # This will run pyinotify and watch /tmp 

Install Pyinotify on Python 3.x

Currently Pyinotify uses a separate code branch for handling Python ≥ 3. setup.py should automatically detect which branch to install. For instance python3.1 setup.py will use python3/pyinotify.py.

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. Under python2/, run make doc
3. It should generate a bunch of html files under python2/docstrings/