Tux Math Scrab*le has a few dependencies:
        1. Python       (www.python.org)
        2. Distutils	(www.python.org)
        3. PyGame       (www.pygame.org)
        4. SDL          (www.libsdl.org)
        5. SDL_Image    (www.libsdl.org)
        6. SDL_Mixer    (www.libsdl.org)
        7. SDL_ttf      (www.libsdl.org)

These should be installed in the above order,
Defaults should work fine. Windows users will
only need Python and PyGame (SDL is included
in PyGame). Both have graphical installation
programs for Windows.

Here are the versions used in development:

Python 2.2.1
pygame-1.5.3 and 1.5.5
SDL-1.2.5
SDL_image-1.2.2
SDL_mixer-1.2.4
SDL_ttf-2.0.5

To install, make sure you have the dependencies,
then run the python script "setup.py". I have not
tested the Windows install script as of this time,
only the Linux. It is therefore possible that there
is some glitch in the Windows config script. It will
be fixed ASAP if one is found. 

The setup.py script compiles all .py scripts to .pyc
and copies the .pyc's and subdirs of "asymptopia"
to the site-packages directory of your Python 
installation. To run TuxMathScrab*le, simply place
the short launcher script in the top directory
("tuxmathscrabble" -- _not_ the .py in the subdir!)
anywhere in your path (/usr/local/bin on Linux)
or run it from here.

Good Luck and Happy adding!

Charlie Cosse
April 13, 2003
