How to install MixDown with pip and virtualenv

How to install MixDown with pip and virtualenv

Since MixDown is still in development, we recommend that you don't install MixDown directly into your Python distribution. Instead, you can use pip and virtualenv.

Installing pip and virtualenv

If they aren't already there, you can install them by doing:

$ sudo easy_install pip
$ sudo pip install virtualenv

Installing MixDown inside a a virtualenv

(This assumes you have a local version of MixDown checked out in ~/MixDown):

$ # Create a virtualenv in a directory called "venv"
$ virtualenv venv 
$ # Install MixDown into it from your local copy
$ pip install -E venv ~/MixDown
$ # Activate it in your current shell session. (This assumes bash, use activate.csh for tcsh)
$ source venv/bin/activate

That's it. Now "MixDown" is in your path in your current shell, and acts as if it was installed.