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# Installation

## *nix

First, download and install version 1.7.0 of the libspatialindex library from:

http://libspatialindex.github.com

The library is a GNU-style build, so it is a matter of:

    $ ./configure; make; make install

You may need to run the `ldconfig` command after installing the library to ensure that applications can find it at startup time.

At this point you can get Rtree 0.7.0 via easy_install:

    $ easy_install Rtree

or by running the local setup.py:

    $ python setup.py install

You can build and test in place like:

    $ python setup.py test

## Windows

The Windows DLLs of libspatialindex are pre-compiled in windows installers that are available from PyPI. Installation on Windows is as easy as:

    c:\python2x\scripts\easy_install.exe Rtree

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