Saiweb » pyinotify http://www.saiweb.co.uk Ramblings of a Sys admin Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:57:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Adding pyinotify to CentOS 5 x64 http://www.saiweb.co.uk/python/adding-pyinotify-to-centos-5-x64 http://www.saiweb.co.uk/python/adding-pyinotify-to-centos-5-x64#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:45:44 +0000 Buzz http://www.saiweb.co.uk/?p=671 In order to get pyinotify working on CentOS 5 x64 a few workarounds need to take place.

(Thanks to Matthew Ife at ukFast for help with this)

First off you are going to need the python-ctypes RPM, available from DAG here: python-ctypes-1.0.0-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

Once installed you are going to need the Fedora 8 python-inotify SOURCE rpm available from here: python-inotify-0.8.0-3.r.fc8.src.rpm

The easiest way I found to extract the required packages was using the following:

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mkdir ./python-inotify
cd ./python-inotify
wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora/linux/updates/8/SRPMS.newkey/python-inotify-0.8.0-3.r.fc8.src.rpm
rpm2cpio ./python-inotify-0.8.0-3.r.fc8.src.rpm | cpio -idv
tar -zxvf ./pyinotify-0.8.0r.tar.gz
cd ./pyinotify
./setup.py install

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