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Anchi Cheng, 04/11/2014 08:45 PM

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h2. Portobuf installation instruction
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Google Protobuf is an open source communication library we use between client and server. For C++ programs, it is built into the program, so no external library installation is needed. However, for Python/Leginon only, the library will need to be added.  A simple way to install this for python use follows:
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# Download 2.3.0 (or up) source zip file as well as the win32.zip binary file
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# Unzip both packages. Copy the binary into protobuf\src folder
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# Go into protobuf\python and run "python setup.py install" and that's it.