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So far, the only dependency you will need in order to run postman is Python
Postman has been tested with python 2.7.x, but it should work with versions 2.6.x too.
Please, refer to your operating system package system documentation to learn more about how to install python.
You can install Postman using pip:
pip install -e https://bitbucket.org/codigo23/postman#egg=postman
Note
Postman has not been recorded/uploaded to pypi yet, so, in order to install it using pip you will have to provide the URL for the public Postman repo.
You can not install Postman using easy_install yet (until we do record/upload it to pypi)
You can install Postman inside a virtualenv. Just create a virtualenv:
virtualenv /path/to/your/env
Then activate it:
source /path/to/your/env/bin/activate
Note
If your shell is csh/tcsh remember you have to activate the environment this way:
source /path/to/your/env/bin/activate.csh
And, once the environment has been activated, use pip to install Postman:
env$ pip install -e https://bitbucket.org/codigo23/postman#egg=postman
When installing from sources, you can download one of the official releases or you can go with the bleeding edge and get a copy of the official source code repository.
The source code of Postman is hosted in bitbucket [1]. In order to grab the latest sources you need Mercurial.
To get a copy of the sources, just clone the repository:
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/codigo23/postman postman-repo
Then, go inside the postman-repo directory and run:
python setup.py install
Warning
If you want to install it system-wide, probably you will need root privileges (check your OS documentation to learn more about how to get root privileges - for example using sudo)
Note
This process will work inside a virtualenv too.
TBW