Installing Cwm

Under Debian

Under debian, just do on the command line:

     apt-get install swap-cwm

Prerequisites

• Python. Currently (2003/2) cwm needs Python2.2 or later. Python comes with many systems. If you don't have it,

  On debian type apt-get install python if you don't have it.

  Mac OSX comes with it on or after 10.2. On earlier, get fink then type fink install python.

  On cygwin, select python in the setup.exe installer..

• If you are reading things in RDF/XML format, you will need the pyxml python extension. If you don't have it, Under debian, type apt-get install pyxml. Otherwise, untar it and in the right directory type python setup.py install. Under cygwin, select it in the the cygwin setup.exe.
• If you are using the public key cryptography builtins, you will need the crypto, originally amkCrypto python extension. Hopefully the necessary functionality will be in pycrypto soon (next release later than 2002/05). One version had a print statement in number.py#inverse --the print statement needs to be removed. Edit directory names appropriately in setup.py then run python setup.py install. Necessary changes for OSX:

You can do all this under MSWindows but the easiest thing is to install cygwin (a unix-like environment for Windows) and run everything in there.

Download

The python source files are available as a compressed tar file

• Download cwm.tar.gz now

Get that, unwrap it in some suitable directory.

Set up an alias (.bat file, etc) to make the cwm command. In bash this is:

cwm="python /whereverYouPutThem/cwm.py"

You should be all set.

Source

This swap code is not guaranteed but is open source and available if you want to play.

Using CVS

from the public w3c CVS repository. Check out the whole tree to develop. This includes the test data - if you don't need that, delete the test subdirectory. Make a fresh directory where you want to put stuff from dev.w3.org.

$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@dev.w3.org:/sources/public login
password? anonymous
$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@dev.w3.org:/sources/public get 2000/10/swap

From the web

Get the files one by one. cwm.py is the main application file. You can browse the source files on the web, but this is not a practical way to install the system.