1. Installation

a) Requirements

The program is delivered as a Python script. Therefore you need a running installation of Python 2.4 or greater. If you use Windows you can just download the current Python from www.python.org. If you use Unix/Linux or MacOS X you can test, which version of Python you have installed, by entering "python" in any shell. If the version is lower than 2.4, refer to your distribution or download the current version from www.python.org.

b) Download

The program lcell is a Python script. You can download a archive containing the script itself, a copy of the online manual, examples and license information. To serve all operation system equally you can choose between zip, rar, tar/bzip2 and tar/gzip.

c) Unpack

To install the script, just copy the archive in a directory of your liking and unpack it. There are no path informations in the archive.

If you download the tar/bzip2 or tar/gzip archive, you can use the following command in a shell:

tar -xvjf lcell.tar.bz2

or respectively

tar -xvzf lcell.tgz

If you use Microsoft Windows you can use a file archiver to your liking. For example 7-Zip can unpack all the archive types listed above. However, the zip archive is mostly recognized by Windows tools.

License Information

lcell is a free software under the revised BSD Licence. See the COPYING file for detailed license information.