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QuickStart Buildout
Cyn.in Dependency installation using Package Managers
Ubuntu 8.0.4 (Hardy)
sudo apt-get build-dep python-ldap python-lxml
sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc g++ libc6-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libjpeg62-dev libreadline5-dev readline-common wv python2.4-dev poppler-utils python-imaging python-libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev subversion libdb4.4-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libssl-dev python-ldap python-setuptools
Ubuntu 8.1.0 (Intrepid) and Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc g++ libc6-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libjpeg62-dev libreadline5-dev readline-common wv python2.4-dev poppler-utils python-imaging python-libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev subversion libsasl2-dev libssl-dev python-ldap libdb-dev libldap2-dev python-setuptools
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libjpeg62-dev libreadline5-dev wv libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libsasl2-dev poppler-utils libdb4.4-dev libldap2-dev python2.4-dev
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libjpeg62-dev libreadline5-dev wv libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libsasl2-dev poppler-utils libdb-dev libldap2-dev python2.4-dev
Make a new virtualenv for your login
After getting dependencies using your package manager, checkout any cyninsrc branch/trunk. From this, you'll find a file, ez_setup.py, you have to run this to install easy_install:
sudo python2.4 ez_setup.py
Next, we install virtualenv which will be used for installing required python dependencies of cyn.in:
sudo easy_install-2.4 virtualenv
Lets start by making a virtualenv based virtual python environment for our own usermode python installation:
virtualenv --python=python2.4 -v --no-site-packages ~/venv
This makes a local python install at ~venv which we will now use to do the buildout. First we need to easy_install the dependencies.
Install python dependencies to your VirtualEnv
Use this concatenated command that will easy_install all dependencies together.
~/venv/bin/easy_install-2.4 ZopeSkel && ~/venv/bin/easy_install-2.4 lxml && ~/venv/bin/easy_install-2.4 python-ldap && ~/venv/bin/easy_install-2.4 -i http://dist.serverzen.com/pypi/simple PILwoTk
Do Bootstrap
That's it for the dependencies, you're ready to do the buildout,
just take care to use the venv python2.4 instead of the system-wide
one.
cd to your buildout directory (it must have bootstrap.py, buildout.cfg, versions.cfg and user.cfg in it) and:
~/venv/bin/python2.4 bootstrap.py
Do Buildout
Now you can proceed as normal by running your buildout as always:
./bin/buildout -c user.cfg
cool, I have installed Cyn.in from source code on a Jaunty based virtual machine. Just a minor comment to the QuickStart Buildout: the README.txt file in the cyn305 sources folder is almost identical to the QuickStart Buildout but it is more complete: the step about setting the effective-user is not mentioned in the QuickStart.
Congrats for the excellent quality, even a newbie can get through the installation.
Will be working on elaborating on the developer side of the picture a little in a few days. In 3.0.4 the Readme.txt file had slipped out of the spec, so we redid the Readme based on the new way using virtualenv, and you're right, it's essentially a re-formatted paste of the quickstart part in the readme, which retains the rest of the valid parts of the original text. The rest of the topics in the whole dev environment setup on the Cyn.in Developers wiki haven't gotten started yet, they'll hopefully be fleshed out soon.
Processing virtualenv
error: Not a recognized archive type: virtualenv
So, two questions:
1.) Why aren't the bootstrap.py and buildout.cfg files being placed in ~/venv/bin? Are you supposed to copy them manually from the root? Trying that workaround was fruitless, you end up receiving errors when you attempt to build.
2.) What's the deal with the easy_install2.5 script? Are we supposed to be using this? If not, why is it even included?
Any help would be appreciated.
The only problem in the instructions lies in the ambiguity of the Do Bootstrap phase.
Here's what needs to be added, imho:
Manually copy over THREE files from your svn checkout root to your ~/venv directory: bootstrap.py, buildout.cfg AND versions.cfg
Then the bootstrap will complete properly.
I'm not sure I follow your point. How come your buildout directory *did not* have these files? In the buildout source snapshot, (as well as the svn checkout) these files are there at the buildout root, right?
bootstrap.py is there in the root of the buildout. To bootstrap you have to cd to the folder that is present and run it with the virtualenv that you just created in your linux home folder.
So suppose you extracted the buildout at "/home/dhiraj/buildout" you would "cd /home/dhiraj/buildout" or just "cd ~/buildout" and then run "~/venv/bin/python2.4 bootstrap.py".
First, thanks very much for the quick reply. Second, I screwed up big time and posted too quickly... I'll blame it on the lack of coffee. Btw, any plans to add edit/deletion of comments soon? ;) Thanks again, everything is working fine now.
Edit and delete of comments: Hmm... let's start a new discussion for this: http://www.cynapse.com/comm[…]sily-editable-and-deletable