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Documentation tweaks.
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charris committed Dec 24, 2012
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23 changes: 13 additions & 10 deletions INSTALL.txt
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Linux Installation
==================

As currently configured a number of step must be taken in order for pyfli
As currently configured a number of steps must be taken in order for pyfli
to be installed and work properly.

dependencies
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Note that this needs to be done each time a new kernel is installed, which
can be often in a distribution like Fedora. From inside the pyfli git
may be often in a distribution like Fedora. From inside the pyfli git
repository the steps are

cd fliusb-1.3
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Once this is done the driver will be automatically loaded when a FLI usb
device is plugged in. The module directory location used above works for my
distribution, Fedora 17, it may need to be modified for other
distributions.
distributions. Note, Ubuntu uses 'misc' instead of 'extra'.

udev configuration
------------------

The default permissions of the /dev/fliusb[0-9]* created when a FLI device
is plugged in only allow root access. This may be changed and the device
name customized by adding a rules script to /etc/udev/rules.d. An example
script 10-local.rules.example can serve as a template for this, strip
the 'example' extension, modify as needed, and do the copy. The results
can be checked by plugging in a FLI device and looking at the permissions
of the created /dev node.
The default permissions of the /dev/fliusb[0-9]* device node created when a
FLI device is plugged in only allow root access. This may be changed and
the device name customized by adding a rules script to /etc/udev/rules.d.
An example script 10-local.rules.example can serve as a template for this,
strip the '.example' extension, modify as needed, and do the copy. The
results can be checked by plugging in a FLI device and looking at the
permissions of the created /dev node. After installing the file it may be
necessary to reload the rules.

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

libfli compilation
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions README.md
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This project provides Python wrappers for the Finger Lakes Instrumentation
SDK libfli-1.104 on Linux. It exposes all the public functions and macros
with the following exceptions:
(FLI) SDK libfli-1.104 on Linux. It exposes all the public functions and
macros with the following exceptions:

FLICreateList
FLIDeleteList
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