The newest version of octopy is found in:

	http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Yasushi_Saito/octopy
	
 TLA repository is mirrored at:

	http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Yasushi_Saito/octopy/{archives}


Prerequisites:

 Run time dependences:

        		Redhat/Fedora		Debian/Sarge
	
	tla1.1pre8	 --			tla
	Python 2.2	python			python2.2
	Python optik	python-optik		python2.2-optik
	PyQt 3		PyQt		        python-qt3
	KDE Artwork	kdeartwork		kdeartwork
	tkdiff		 --			tkdiff
	  http://www.accurev.com/free/tkdiff/

 Extra dependences for build and installation:

        		Redhat/Fedora		Debian/Sarge

	Python 2.2	python			python2.2-dev
	PyQt 3		PyQt-devel, sip		pyqt-tools
	latex2html	latex2html		latex2html

   Note for Debian users:
    On Debian Sarge, the default Python version is 2.3. You can safely
    (as far as we know) use python2.3 packages instead of python2.2.
    Optik is part of Python 2.3 (as optparse), so the python2.3-optik
    package does not exist.

Installation:

  1. If you downloaded Octopy from the Arch archive, you first nee to run
     run make and build the Qt code from the XML .ui files.

  2. Become a superuser and say:
	# python setup.py install
     Or, you can just run octopy from its source code directory.

Building the documentation:

  If you downloaded Octopy as a tarball, the documentation is already
  built, you can go to the next section.

  If you are building a source tree obtained with Arch (not from a
  tarball) you have to build the documentation yourself.

  Prerequisites:
    netpbm -- packaged by all general purpose distributions.

    mkhowto -- part of the Python source distribution, but not
      packaged by Debian (yet). If you use Debian you can get it with
      "apt-get source python2.2" (or python2.3). It is located in the
      ./Doc/tools directory.

  Go into the ./doc directory and run "make".

  The first time you run make, a precious file is created to save the
  absolute name of mkhowto. If it is installed in a non-standard
  location, you only have to specify a custom PATH for the first
  invokation of make.


From here:

  Read doc/octopy/index.html.