Installation
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**Prerequisites**

Python 2.4 or higher, SWIG 1.3 or higher, GNU make

**Compiling**

After downloading, you can compile the pyUnbound library by doing::

	> tar -xzf unbound-x.x.x-py.tar.gz
	> cd unbound-x.x.x
	> ./configure --with-pyunbound
	> make

You may want to --with-pythonmodule as well if you want to use python as
a module in the resolver.

You need GNU make to compile sources; SWIG and Python devel libraries to compile extension module. 


**Testing**

If the compilation is successful, you can test the python LDNS extension module by::

	> cd contrib/python
	> make testenv
	> ./dns-lookup.py

You may want to make install in the main directory since make testenv is for debugging.  In contrib/examples you can find simple applications written in Python using the Unbound extension.