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 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