All In One Gramps Software Bundle for Windows

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Any files listed here may be not suitable for normal every day use! (My lawyer advised me to say that, but many people are using this and have reported no problems at all.)
Any comments and help (e.g. on wiki pages) are welcome. Josip

The Gramps "software bundle" for Windows or GrampsAIO is an all-in-one (a.k.a. "AIO") installation package of Gramps which includes all dependencies for the Windows platform. (See also GRAMPS and Windows.)

Not only are all dependencies included ("bundled"), so that users do not have to first manually install each one of them, but they are installed in such a fashion that Gramps can easily find them.

(Technical details: The logic for this bundle is that in Windows the first entry in the search path is the current working directory (the one in which the program is started), so if any Gramps dependency is in that same directory there is thus no need to look for that dependency in a system folder and possibly load an incompatible one -- thus "dependency hell" is avoided. This is also the reason why GrampsAIO must be started from its own folder. Also, in newer Windows versions there may be security restriction with shell scripts so GrampsAIO does not use one.)

For the technically sophisticated, GrampsAIO is rebuild-able: it contains an install script which can make a new installable program from the installed one. For example somebody might like to repackage Gramps with their code changes, or favorite addons, or even their own family trees, etc.

This distribution is directory based, which means it loads all dependencies from the directory in which they have been installed. So if you want to use it from console/terminal (dos/cmd.exe prompt) you must first go to their directory (GrampsAIO\bin); for example: cd C:\GrampsAIO\bin; python -EO ..\share\gramps\gramps.py -- but the installation may have been put somewhere else and so you should probably first search for the GrampsAIO\bin folder to make sure.

Why:

  • easy installation:
    • no searching web for appropriate packages
    • one click install
  • no dependency hell:
    • all libraries work together
    • on upgrade of a library all other libraries are rebuilt with that version

How:

  • put all software Gramps needs in one package:
  1. all core non-python library and applications
  2. any optional non-python library and applications
  3. python bindings for core libraries
  4. python bindings for optional libraries
  • use NSIS (Nullsoft Script-able Install System)

Software releases:

The preferred way to get the GrampsAIO bundle is to download it from the official Gramps software repository. See Download for the current version and link to it.

Older versions or developmental versions are available directly from the GrampsAIO bundle's author. See below.

Gramps AIO (32bit)

Gramps AIO Releases
GrampsAIO
 AIO 3.2.5-1
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2010-12-04
 AIO 3.2.5-2
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2010-12-04
 AIO 3.2.5-3
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2010-12-21
 AIO 3.2.5-4
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2011-01-01
 AIO 3.2.5-5
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2011-01-08
 AIO 3.2.6-1
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2011-05-01
 AIO 3.3.0
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2011-06-21
Includes: Gramps 3.3.0, Python (2.7.2), GTK & PyGTK ... plus GhostScript for reports, GraphViz and goocanvas for graphs, GtkSpell and various dictionaries for spell-checking, osmgpsmap for GeographyView, pyexiv2, convert and jhead for ImageMetadata

Gramps AIO (64bit)

Gramps AIO Releases
GrampsAIO64
 AIO64 3.2.5-1
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2010-12-29
 AIO64 3.2.5-2
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2010-12-29
 AIO64 3.2.5-3
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2010-12-31
 AIO64 3.2.5-4
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2011-01-06
 AIO64 3.2.6-1
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2011-06-05
 AIO64 3.3.0_beta-1
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2011-05-29
Includes: Gramps 3.3.0, Python (2.7.2), GTK & PyGTK ... plus GhostScript for reports, GraphViz and goocanvas for graphs, GtkSpell and various dictionaries for spell-checking, osmgpsmap for GeographyView, pyexiv2, convert and jhead for ImageMetadata