Der Vorteil der Ryu-Variante direkt von Github ist die direkte Versorgung mit Patches oder Erweiterungen. Generell wird das PyPi Projekt nur mit jedem Major Release versorgt.

• Ich verwende Mac OS X v10.9
• Python v2.7 ist bereits an Bord
• pip (alles notwendige ist hier beschrieben!)
• virtualenv (pip install virtualenv)
• XCode v5.1.1 (Apple AppStore, wichtig sind die command-line Tools! Man sollte Zeit haben denn der Download ist umfangreich!)
• XCode Command-Line Tools (pip will einiges kompilieren)
• git (sinnvollerweise auch ein Github Account)

Ich empfehle die Installation in folgenden Schritten.

Macbook:Python Benny$ virtualenv ryu
New python executable in ryu/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip...done.
Macbook:Python Benny$ source ryu/bin/activate
(ryu)Macbook:Python Benny$ 

• Github von Ryu
  • https://github.com/osrg/ryu
• Wie man ein Projekt auf Github forked ist ausführlich dokumentiert
  • https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/
  • https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork/

(ryu)Macbook:Python Benny$ cd ryu
(ryu)Macbook:ryu Benny$ git clone https://github.com/<EUER BENUTZERNAME>/ryu.git
Cloning into 'ryu'...
remote: Counting objects: 16685, done.
remote: Total 16685 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (16685/16685), 18.83 MiB | 638.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (12161/12161), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
(ryu)Macbook:ryu Benny$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/osrg/ryu.git
(ryu)Macbook:ryu Benny$ git remote -v
origin	https://github.com/<EUER BENUTZERNAME>/ryu.git (fetch)
origin	https://github.com/<EUER BENUTZERNAME>/ryu.git (push)
upstream	https://github.com/osrg/ryu.git (fetch)
upstream	https://github.com/osrg/ryu.git (push)

(ryu)Macbook:ryu Benny$ STATIC_DEPS=true pip install lxml
Downloading/unpacking lxml
  Downloading lxml-3.3.5.tar.gz (3.5MB): 3.5MB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/Users/Benny/Python/ryu/build/lxml/setup.py) egg_info for package lxml
  
  (... Jede Menge CLI-Kilometer ausgelassen ...)
  
Successfully installed lxml
Cleaning up...

(ryu)Macbook:ryu Benny$ python ./setup.py install

Installed /Users/Benny/Python/ryu/ryu/pbr-0.10.0-py2.7.egg
running install
Downloading/unpacking eventlet
  Downloading eventlet-0.15.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (150kB): 150kB downloaded
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): lxml in /Users/Benny/Python/ryu/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Downloading/unpacking msgpack-python>=0.3.0
  Downloading msgpack-python-0.4.2.tar.gz (114kB): 114kB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/Users/Benny/Python/ryu/build/msgpack-python/setup.py) egg_info for package msgpack-python
  
  (... Jede Menge CLI-Kilometer ausgelassen ...)
  
running install_data
creating /Users/Benny/Python/ryu/etc
creating /Users/Benny/Python/ryu/etc/ryu
copying etc/ryu/ryu.conf -> /Users/Benny/Python/ryu/etc/ryu
running install_egg_info
Copying ryu.egg-info to /Users/Benny/Python/ryu/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ryu-3.14-py2.7.egg-info
running install_scripts
Installing ryu-manager script to /Users/Benny/Python/ryu/bin
Installing ryu script to /Users/Benny/Python/ryu/bin
(ryu)Macbook:ryu Benny$

(ryu)Macbook:ryu Benny$ ryu-manager ryu/app/simple_switch_13.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/Benny/Python/ryu/bin/ryu-manager", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/Users/Benny/Python/ryu/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2697, in <module>
    working_set.require(__requires__)
  File "/Users/Benny/Python/ryu/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 669, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/Users/Benny/Python/ryu/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 572, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: pbr>=0.6,!=0.7,<1.0

(ryu)Macbook:ryu Benny$ pip install pbr
Downloading/unpacking pbr
  Downloading pbr-0.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (63kB): 63kB downloaded
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pip in /Users/Benny/Python/ryu/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from pbr)
Installing collected packages: pbr
Successfully installed pbr
Cleaning up...

(ryu)Macbook:ryu Benny$ ryu-manager --verbose ryu/app/simple_switch_13.py 
loading app ryu/app/simple_switch_13.py
loading app ryu.controller.ofp_handler
instantiating app ryu/app/simple_switch_13.py of SimpleSwitch13
instantiating app ryu.controller.ofp_handler of OFPHandler
BRICK SimpleSwitch13
  CONSUMES EventOFPSwitchFeatures
  CONSUMES EventOFPPacketIn
BRICK ofp_event
  PROVIDES EventOFPSwitchFeatures TO {'SimpleSwitch13': set(['config'])}
  PROVIDES EventOFPPacketIn TO {'SimpleSwitch13': set(['main'])}
  CONSUMES EventOFPEchoRequest
  CONSUMES EventOFPSwitchFeatures
  CONSUMES EventOFPErrorMsg
  CONSUMES EventOFPPortDescStatsReply
  CONSUMES EventOFPHello