Installation Instructions for OpenSlides 1.3 ============================================ Content ------- I. Installation on GNU/Linux and MacOSX using the Python Package Index (PyPI) II. Installation on GNU/Linux and MacOSX using the sources III. Installation on Windows (32bit) using the Python Package Index (PyPI) If you need help ask on OpenSlides users mailing list. See http://openslides.org for more information. I. Installation on GNU/Linux and MacOSX using the Python Package Index (PyPI) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Check requirements: Make sure that you have installed Python Programming Language 2 (>= 2.5) on your system. 2. Setup a virtual environment with virtualenv (optional): You can setup a virtual environment to install OpenSlides as non-root user. E. g. for Ubuntu run: $ sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv To setup and activate the virtual environment, create your OpenSlides directory, change to it and run: $ virtualenv .venv $ source .venv/bin/activate 3. Install OpenSlides: $ pip install openslides OpenSlides will install the following required python packages: + Django + django-mptt + ReportLab Toolkit + Python Imaging Library (PIL) 4. Start OpenSlides server and open URL in your default browser: $ openslides If you run this command the first time a new database and the admin account are created. Please change the password after first login! Username: admin Password: admin Use 'openslides --help' to show all start options. II. Installation on GNU/Linux and MacOSX using the sources ---------------------------------------------------------- 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 OpenSlides' github repository https://github.com/OpenSlides/OpenSlides. This requires Git, see http://git-scm.com/. E. g. for Ubuntu run: $ sudo apt-get install git $ git clone git://github.com/OpenSlides/OpenSlides.git OpenSlides 3. Setup a virtual environment with virtualenv (optional): You can setup a virtual environment to install OpenSlides as non-root user. E. g. for Ubuntu run: $ sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv To setup and activate the virtual environment go to the (extracted/cloned) root directory of OpenSlides and run: $ virtualenv .venv $ source .venv/bin/activate 4. 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 5. 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. 6. Restart OpenSlides: To restart OpenSlides after closing the terminal activate the virtual environment (see 4.) before starting the server (see 6.). III. Installation on Windows (32bit) using the Python Package Index (PyPI) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: There is a portable version of OpenSlides for Windows which does not required any install steps! If there is a reason that you can not use the portable version you should run the following install steps. 1. Install requirements: The OpenSlides install requires following programs, which should be installed first: + Python Programming Language 2 (>= 2.5) + Setuptools 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 2. Install OpenSlides: Open command line (cmd) and run: easy_install openslides 3. Start OpenSlides server and open URL in your default browser: Open command line (cmd) and run: openslides 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 'openslides --help' to show all start options.