Advanced Usage

It is possible to use toolshelf without having Python, git, Mercurial, or wget installed. However, you have to perform some steps manually. Also, probably the first thing you'll want to install, using "manual toolshelf", is Python.

Luckily, you can install Python under toolshelf.

I'll assume you want to use /home/user/toolshelf as your toolshelf. First,

mkdir -p /home/user/toolshelf
mkdir -p /home/user/toolshelf/.bin
mkdir -p /home/user/toolshelf/localhost/distfile

Then, get copies of the toolshelf and Python distributions onto your system somehow... perhaps download these and burn them to a CD-ROM, or whatever:

https://github.com/catseye/toolshelf/archive/master.zip
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/Python-2.7.6.tgz

I'll assume these distfiles are present in /cdrom/. Now,

unzip /cdrom/toolshelf-master.zip
mv toolshelf-master /home/user/toolshelf/.toolshelf
cd /home/user/toolshelf/localhost/distfile
tar zxvf /cdrom/Python-2.7.6.tgz
cd Python-2.7.6
./configure --prefix=`pwd` && make && make install

And go do something else for a while, whilst Python builds. Then:

ln -s /home/user/toolshelf/localhost/distfile/Python-2.7.6/bin/python /home/user/toolshelf/.bin/python

Then edit your .profile:

export TOOLSHELF=/home/user/toolshelf && . $TOOLSHELF/.toolshelf/init.sh

Then start a new shell. Then test that you can run python and toolshelf:

python -v
toolshelf

If you can, great. You can start off with

toolshelf relink all

and this will add the other executables from the Python source onto the source path. Note, don't do a make clean in the Python source directory, or you may not be able to use toolshelf (the python binary will still be there, but the select module will be deleted.)

You ought to be able to use toolshelf normally from this point on.