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@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ fish requires gettext for translation support.
xcodebuild install
sudo ditto /tmp/fish.dst /
## Help, it didn't build!
## Build Dependencies (or, Help, it didn't build!)
If fish reports that it could not find curses, try installing a curses development package and build again.
@ -48,6 +48,20 @@ on RedHat, CentOS, or Amazon EC2:
sudo yum install ncurses-devel
To build with translation support, make sure you have a gettext package installed.
To build the documentation, make sure you have Doxygen installed.
## Runtime Dependencies
fish requires a number of utilities to operate, which should be present on any Unix, GNU/Linux or OS X system. These include (but are not limited to) grep, awk, sed, which, and getopt. The bc program is also required.
Some optional features of fish, such as the manual page completion parser and the web configuration tool, require Python.
In order to generate completions from man pages compressed with either lzma or xz, you may need to install an extra Python package.
Python versions prior to 2.6 are not supported. For Python versions 2.6 to 3.2 you need to install the module `backports.lzma`. How to install it depends on your system and how you installed Python. Most Linux distributions should include it as a package named `backports-lzma` (or similar). From version 3.3 onwards, Python already includes the required module.
## Packages for Linux
Instructions on how to find builds for several Linux distros are at <https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/wiki/Nightly-builds>
@ -66,12 +80,6 @@ To switch your default shell back, you can run:
Substitute /bin/bash with /bin/tcsh or /bin/zsh as appropriate.
## Optional Dependencies
In order to generate completions from man pages compressed with either lzma or xz, you may need to install an extra Python package.
Python versions prior to 2.6 are not supported. For Python versions 2.6 to 3.2 you need to install the module `backports.lzma`. How to install it depends on your system and how you installed Python. Most Linux distributions should include it as a package named `backports-lzma` (or similar). From version 3.3 onwards, Python already includes the required module.
## Contact Us
Questions, comments, rants and raves can be posted to the official fish mailing list at <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users> or join us on our IRC channel [#fish at irc.oftc.net](https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=fish).