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= Installing Marble's Python Bindings =
=== General requirements ===
Marble's Python Bindings only depend on [http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro PyQt] and [http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/sip/intro SIP] and do not require the kdebindings-python package provided by some distributions (these are only for some other KDE Python bindings).
=== Getting the Dependencies ===
*'''deb-based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu...):''' 
 $ sudo apt-get install python-sip python-qt4

*'''OpenSuSE:''' All the necessary dependencies:
 $ sudo zypper install python-sip python-qt4

*'''Fedora/RHEL:''' All the dependencies used for building kdelibs can be installed by running:
 $ sudo yum install python-sip python-qt4

*'''Arch Linux:''' All the dependencies used for building kdelibs can be installed by running:
 $ sudo pacman -Sy python-sip python-pyqt4

=== Installing the Marble Python bindings ===

To install the Marble Python bindings we will need to compile Marble from source. The following commands will download and compile Marble:

 $ git clone git://anongit.kde.org/marble.git ~/marble -b KDE/4.12
 $ cd ~/marble
 $ mkdir -p build
 $ cd build
 $ cmake ../ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DEXPERIMENTAL_PYTHON_BINDINGS=TRUE  -DQTONLY=FALSE  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local
 $ make
 $ sudo make install

On Arch Linux you will have to add the following options to cmake so it looks like this:

 $ cmake ../ -DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE=qmake-qt4 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DEXPERIMENTAL_PYTHON_BINDINGS=TRUE  -DQTONLY=FALSE

For an example of build instructions visit [http://marble.kde.org/sources.php Marble's sources page]. Just make sure to add the <code>-DEXPERIMENTAL_PYTHON_BINDINGS=TRUE -DQTONLY=FALSE</code> flags to cmake