Getting Nicotine+ from the Subversion Repository

First, make sure you have Subversion installed and all dependencies as well.

Then, issue the followng commands in a terminal

Download the Nicotine source to the nicotine+/ directory

svn checkout http://nicotine-plus.org/svn/trunk/nicotine+ nicotine+

Change to the new nicotine+ directory

cd nicotine+

Run the version of nicotine just downloaded

./nicotine

To update a previously checked out Nicotine+

cd nicotine+
svn up

To download a specfic release of Nicotine-Plus

svn checkout http://nicotine-plus.org/svn/tags/X.X.X/nicotine+ nicotine+

Replace the X.X.X with the version

Subversion on Windows

If you don't already have them, install the required dependencies:

• GTK2 Website
• Python If you download Python 2.5, make sure you snag the 2.5 installers for the packages below. Do the same with version 2.4.
  • PyGTK2 Website
  • PyGObject
  • PyCairo

Then

• Get TortoiseSVN
• Install TortoiseSVN and restart Windows
• Open Windows Explorer and create a directory ex: C:\nicotine-plus
• In Explorer, use the right-click popup menu to select SVN Checkout
• Under URL of repository enter http://nicotine-plus.org/svn/trunk/nicotine+ and set your Checkout directory to newly created directory
• Press Ok and wait for the files to be downloaded
• Enter the new directory and rename nicotine to nicotine.py
  • If you don't like seeing the terminal window, rename nicotine to nicotine.pyw, instead.
• Run nicotine.py to start Nicotine+

Updating

• When you want to update, right-click on the nicotine svn directory and select SVN Update