Dependencies

• Linux Kernel >= 2.6.13
• Python (CPython) >= 2.4
• Libc >= 2.4
• ctypes are already  included in Python 2.5 and can be installed on Python 2.4 through  this module
• [optional]  Epydoc (only needed for extracting docstrings and regenerate documentation)

Install Pyinotify on Python 2.x

1- Make sure "Easy Install" is installed:
   wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
   sudo python ez_setup.py
2- Install pyinotify:
   sudo easy_install pyinotify
3- Check pyinotify is working alright [run pyinotify from command line and watch /tmp (default watched directory)]
   python -m pyinotify -v

Install Pyinotify on Python 3.x

Python 3 brings lot of changes it currently seems impossible to maintain a single code for all Python versions >= 2.4. If you intend to use Pyinotify with Python versions >= 3.0 then you should proceed like this:

1- Download a snapshot of Pyinotify:
   http://git.dbzteam.org/pyinotify/snapshot/pyinotify-master.tar.gz
2- Uncompress it, cd to its root directory then for instance assuming your target Python interpreter is Python3.1 type:
   sudo python3.1 setup.py install 

Generate Documentation

You can browse the documentation online or you can generate it directly from the source code with  Epydoc:

1- Install a recent version of Epydoc (package python-epydoc on Debian/Ubuntu systems)
2- Run this command:
   make doc
3- It should have generated a bunch of html files under docstrings/