Installation Instructions for OpenSlides 1.2 ============================================ Content ------- I. Installation on Windows (32/64bit) II. Installation on GNU/Linux and MacOSX If you need help ask on OpenSlides users mailing list. See http://openslides.org for more information. I. Installation on Windows (32/64bit) ------------------------------------- 1. Install requirements: OpenSlides requires following programs, which should be installed first: + Python Programming Language 2 (>= 2.5), + Setuptools + ReportLab Toolkit + Python Imaging Library (PIL) + Django + django-mptt a) Download and run 32bit MSI installer from http://www.python.org/: http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/python-2.7.3.msi b) Add python dirs to PATH (via Control Panel > System > Advanced): ";C:\Python27;C:\Python27\Scripts" c) Install Setuptools: Download and run 32bit binary installer from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools: http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11.win32-py2.7.exe d) Install ReportLab Toolkit, Python Imaging Library (PIL), Django and django-mptt: Open command line (cmd) and run: easy_install django django-mptt reportlab pil If you use a 64bit version of Python, you have to install reportlab and pil not by using easy_install but manually. 2. Get OpenSlides: a) Download latest OpenSlides release from http://openslides.org. OR b) Clone development version from mercurial repository http://hg.openslides.org. This requires Mercurial source control management (hg), see http://mercurial.selenic.com. Open command line (cmd) and run: hg clone http://hg.openslides.org OpenSlides 3. Start OpenSlides server and open URL in your default browser: python start.py If you run this script the first time a new database and the admin account are created. Please change the password after first login! Username: admin Password: admin Use 'python start.py --help' to show all start options. II. Installation on GNU/Linux and MacOSX ---------------------------------------- 1. Install requirements: OpenSlides requires following programs, which should be installed first: + Python Programming Language 2 (>= 2.5) + virtualenv (>= 1.4.1) + ReportLab Toolkit + Python Imaging Library (PIL) E.g. for ubuntu run: $ sudo apt-get install python python-virtualenv python-reportlab python-imaging 2. Get OpenSlides: a) Download latest OpenSlides release from http://openslides.org. OR b) Clone development version from mercurial repository http://hg.openslides.org. This requires Mercurial source control management (hg): E.g. for Ubuntu run: $ sudo apt-get install mercurial $ hg clone http://hg.openslides.org OpenSlides 3. Setup your virtual environment with virtualenv: Go to the (extracted/cloned) root directory of OpenSlides and create virtualenv environment: $ virtualenv .venv For virtualenv >= 1.7 use instead: $ virtualenv --system-site-packages .venv 4. Activate the virtual environment: $ source .venv/bin/activate 5. Install the required python-packages: $ pip install django django-mptt If you use python < 2.6 you also have to install simplejson: $ pip install simplejson If requirements reportlab or PIL still missing (see 1.): $ pip install reportlab pil 6. Start OpenSlides server and open URL in your default browser: $ python start.py If you run this script the first time a new database and the admin account are created. Please change the password after first login! Username: admin Password: admin Use 'python start.py --help' to show all start options. 7. Restart OpenSlides: To restart OpenSlides after closing the terminal activate the virtual environment (see 4.) before starting the server (see 6.).