What is logilab.pylintinstaller ?

This package bundles all dependencies required to install pylint.

pylint is a great QA tool, see:

http://www.logilab.org/project/name/pylint

This package is an "unofficial" bundle made to ease pylint 0.14 installation under various platform. If you are using a debian-like ior a suze-like platform, use the deb packages provided by Logilab.

How to use logilab.pylintinstaller ?

Make sure you don't have logilab-astng and logilab-common packages installed. Otherwise, remove them.

Then install logilab.pylintinstaller with easy_install:

$ easy_install logilab.pylintinstaller

Or with the distutils command line tool from within the folder:

$ python setup.py install

The pylint command should then be available.