This guide is a general explanation for running Nicotine+ from Subversion. There is also a special OSX Guide

Getting Nicotine+ from the Subversion Repository

First, make sure you have  Subversion installed and all  dependencies as well.

Then, issue the following commands in a terminal

Download the Nicotine source to the nicotine+/ directory

svn checkout http://nicotine-plus.org/svn/trunk/nicotine+ nicotine+

Change to the new nicotine+ directory

cd nicotine+

Run the version of nicotine just downloaded

./nicotine.py

To update a previously checked out Nicotine+

cd nicotine+
svn up

To download a specfic release of Nicotine-Plus

svn checkout http://nicotine-plus.org/svn/tags/X.X.X/nicotine+ nicotine+

Replace the X.X.X with the version

Subversion on Windows

If you don't already have them, install the required dependencies:

•  GTK2  Website
•  Python If you download Python 2.6, make sure you snag the 2.6 installers for the packages below. Do the same with version 2.5/2.4.
  •  PyGTK2  Website
  •  PyGObject
  •  PyCairo
  •  LibGlade
  •  Mutagen

Mutagen

To install Mutagen extract the mutagen folder to C:\ (Within the extracted folder there is another folder. That is the one you need to put on C:\.)

cd "C:\mutagen-1.15"

c:\python26\python.exe setup.py install

Then

•  Get TortoiseSVN
• Install TortoiseSVN and restart Windows
• Open Windows Explorer and create a directory ex: C:\nicotine-plus
• In Explorer, use the right-click popup menu to select SVN Checkout
• Under URL of repository enter http://nicotine-plus.org/svn/trunk/nicotine+ and set your Checkout directory to newly created directory
• Press Ok and wait till all files are downloaded
• Enter the new directory
• Run nicotine.pyw to start Nicotine+

Updating

• When you want to update, right-click on the nicotine svn directory and select SVN Update