Installation Guidelines: Linux - Developer (Manual)

Install Python

The latest Python 3.9 version is currently recommended.

For Debian-based systems like Ubuntu:

sudo su -
apt-get install python3.9

Install Python Libraries

Linux users should generally use the packages provided for their specific distribution, where available.

If you wish to then you can use VirtualEnv

Mandatory

• ​lxml for XML export/import
• ​Shapely for GIS Features
• ​ReportLab for PDF output
• ​PIL Python Image Library for PDFs
• ​dateutil

On Debian-based systems, like Ubuntu:

sudo su -
apt-get install python-lxml
apt-get install python-shapely
apt-get install python-reportlab
apt-get install python-imaging
apt-get install python-dateutil

Optional

• ​xlwt for XLS output
• ​xlrd for XLS output & reading spreadsheets (used by survey to import data held on a spreadsheet)

• ​numpy required by matplotlib
• ​MatPlotLib for charts (used in the Survey & Delphi applications & for the S3Report pivottable reports)

• ​setuptools for installing tweepy (​more on installing python eggs)
• ​tweepy python library to interact with twitter (egg)
• ​Pyserial for SMS Features

• ​PyTZ for Timezone awareness
• ​PyWURFL for Browser Capabilities (egg - unused currently)
• ​PyRTF for Survey Forms as Documents.

• ​MySQLDB for accessing MySQL databases
• ​Psycopg2 for accessing PostgreSQL databases. Note: Use psycopg2 instead of web2py default (pg8000) for postgres9.3

On Debian-based systems, like Ubuntu:

sudo su -
apt-get install python-xlwt
apt-get install python-xlrd

apt-get install python-numpy
apt-get install python-matplotlib

apt-get install python-setuptools
easy_install http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/t/tweepy/tweepy-1.9-py2.7.egg #(check if latest) 
apt-get install python-serial

apt-get install python-tz
easy_install http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/p/pywurfl/pywurfl-7.2.1-py2.6.egg #(unused so might not want to install) 
# Download and extract PyRTF from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyrtf/files/latest/download 
python setup.py install

apt-get install python-mysqldb
apt-get install python-psycopg2

Install git

We use the ​git Distributed Version Control System.

• Debian-based systems, like Ubuntu:

  sudo su -
  apt-get install git-core
  

• For RPM-based distributions, like Fedora or RHEL: ===

  yum install git
  

Next

Configure git; install Web2Py and Sahana Eden:

• InstallationGuidelines/Developer/PostPython