Recommended packages

This page is not intended to list all the good packages I’ve found around. Instead, it is a list of those packages you SHOULD have, in order to easily and quickly develop your oneminute applications.

Package 1: Setup Tools

Some of the packages listed in the Scientific Packages page does not provide a platform executable installer. Insted they provide a easy_install module, known as egg installer. Once you install Setup Tools you will be able to instal these package by simply launching easy_install [application arguments] in the system console.

Windows installer, Mac installer (launch the file as it were a shell script), Ubuntu users write: sudo aptitude install python-setuptools

The official page is here.

Package 2: PyOpenGL

PyOpenGL is the cross platform Python  binding to OpenGL and related APIs. It includes support for OpenGL v1.1 through 3.2, GLU, GLUT v3.7 (and FreeGLUT), and GLE 3.  It also includes support for hundreds of OpenGL extensions.

Source based installer: PyOpenGL, PyOpenGL-accelerate

Unzip the files in two different directories and write at the command line in each one: setup.py install

The official page is here.

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