Installing Babel
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Prerequisites
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 * Python 2.3 or later (2.4 or later is recommended)
 * Optional: setuptools 0.6b1 or later
 * Optional: pytz (strongly recommended for real time-zone support, mandatory 
   to run the automated test suite)


Installation
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Once you've downloaded and unpacked a Babel source release, enter the
directory where the archive was unpacked, and run:

  $ python setup.py install

Note that you may need administrator/root privileges for this step, as
this command will by default attempt to install Babel to the Python
site-packages directory on your system.

For advanced options, please refer to the easy_install and/or the distutils
documentation:

  http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall
  http://docs.python.org/inst/inst.html


Support
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If you encounter any problems with Babel, please don't hesitate to ask
questions on the Babel mailing list or IRC channel:

  http://babel.edgewall.org/wiki/MailingList
  http://babel.edgewall.org/wiki/IrcChannel