If you're installing by hand or packaging pycomedi for another
distribution, you'll need the following dependencies:
-======= =================== ================ ==========================
-Package Purpose Debian_ Gentoo_
-======= =================== ================ ==========================
-NumPy_ ? python-numpy dev-python/numpy
-SciPy_ testing python-scipy sci-libs/scipy
-Comedi_ Comedilib interface python-comedilib sci-libs/comedilib [#clb]_
-nose_ testing python-nose dev-python/nose
-Cython_ Comedilib interface cython dev-python/cython
-======= =================== ================ ==========================
-
-.. [#clb] In the `wtk overlay`_.
+============ =================== ================ ==============================
+Package Purpose Debian_ Gentoo_
+============ =================== ================ ==============================
+NumPy_ ? python-numpy dev-python/numpy
+SciPy_ testing python-scipy sci-libs/scipy
+Comedi_ Comedilib interface python-comedilib sci-libs/comedilib [#wtk]_
+nose_ testing python-nose dev-python/nose
+Cython_ Comedilib interface cython dev-python/cython
+python-kmod_ Optional ext. info. dev-python/python-kmod [#wtk]_
+============ =================== ================ ==============================
+
+.. [#wtk] In the `wtk overlay`_.
+
+If python-kmod is installed, you will get additional module
+information from the ``info.py`` demo program. If it is not
+installed, everything will still work, but ``info.py`` will only be
+able to get the module version, not the kernel version, staging-ness,
+parameters, etc.
Installing by hand
.. _SciPy: http://www.scipy.org/
.. _nose: http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/
.. _Cython: http://www.cython.org/
+.. _python-kmod: https://github.com/agrover/python-kmod/
.. _Git: http://git-scm.com/
.. _homepage: http://blog.tremily.us/posts/pycomedi/
.. _GNU General Public License Version 2: