I would like to know if as in .deb packages for example, it is possible in my setup.py I configure the dependencies for my package, and when executing:
$ sudo python setup.py install
They will be installed automatically. I already searched the internet but everything I found ended up confusing me, things like "requires", "install_requires" and "requirements.txt".
Thank you in advance.
On your setup.py you are certainly using a setup() of settuptools function.
You should include in this function the install_requires argument with the list of dependencies.
For example:
setup(
name='exemplo',
install_requires=[
'babel >= 1.0',
'pytz',
],
)
Clarifying requirements.txt : is often used with pip to indicate a list of packages to install, instead of using that list directly in pip . It is not related to setup.py , but ends up having a function similar to ìnstall_requires', which can cause confusion.
I suppose you will write a package in the PyPI standard (for use with the pip , for example , or easy_install ), here is a complete example of how to do this .