Shrapnel currently works on FreeBSD, Linux, and Mac OS X with x86 32- or 64-bit platforms. It supports Python 2.7 (TODO: and 2.6?).
To make installation easy, you can use pip. This is a tool which will fetch Python packages from PyPi and install them.
Visit http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html for information on how to install pip if you don’t already have it installed.
You need version 0.12.1 or newer of Cython. If you already have Cython installed, you can check your current version by running cython -V.
To install Cython, run:
pip install cython
You need version 0.6.16 or newer of distribute. Distribute is a build and packaging tool for Python (a replacement for setuptools).
To install distribute, run:
pip install distribute
Finally, you can install Shrapnel, run:
pip install shrapnel
Alternatively you can download it from https://github.com/ironport/shrapnel and do the usual python setup.py install procedure.