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# Installing LLFUSE

## Dependencies

In order to build and run LLFUSE you need the following software:

- Linux, FreeBSD or MacOS X system
- Python 2.6 or newer (including Python 3.x), installed with development headers
- The setuptools Python module, version 1.0 or newer.
- the pkg-config tool
- the attr library
- A C compiler (only for building)

When using Linux, you also need:

- Kernel 2.6.9 or newer. Starting with kernel 2.6.26 you will get significantly better write performance, so under Linux you should actually use 2.6.26 or newer whenever possible.
- Version 2.8.0 or newer of the FUSE library.

In case of FreeBSD, you will need:

- The FUSE4BSD kernel module.

For OS-X, you need:

- the FUSE4X package, version 0.9.1 or newer.

## Stable releases

LLFUSE can be installed like any other Python extension. Make sure that you have all necessary dependencies installed (when installing packages from a distribution, make sure to also install the corresponding -dev or -devel development packages), then download and extract the LLFUSE tarball and run

    sudo python setup.py install

or

    python setup.py install --user

## Development Version

If you have checked out the unstable development version from the Mercurial repository, a bit more effort is required. You need to also have Cython (0.16 or newer) and Sphinx (1.1 or newer) installed, and the necessary commands are:

    python setup.py build_cython
    python setup.py build_ext --inplace
    python setup.py build_sphinx
    python setup.py install

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