Pygments

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Pygments requires at least Python 2.4 to work correctly. Just to clarify: there won't ever be support for Python versions below 2.4. However, there are no other dependencies.

Installing a released version

As a Python egg (via easy_install)

You can install the most recent Pygments version using easy_install:

sudo easy_install Pygments

This will install a Pygments egg in your Python installation's site-packages directory.

From the tarball release

  1. Download the most recent tarball from the download page
  2. Unpack the tarball
  3. sudo python setup.py install

Note that the last command will automatically download and install setuptools if you don't already have it installed. This requires a working internet connection.

This will install Pygments into your Python installation's site-packages directory.

Installing the development version

If you want to play around with the code

  1. Install Mercurial
  2. hg clone http://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/pygments-main pygments
  3. cd pygments
  4. ln -s pygments /usr/lib/python2.X/site-packages
  5. ln -s pygmentize /usr/local/bin

As an alternative to steps 4 and 5 you can also do python setup.py develop which will install the package via setuptools in development mode.