Installation Guidelines: Linux - Developer (Manual)

Examples are shown for Debian-based systems.

Because of this wiki being based on a Debian system, it is assumed that all systems are running with the "sudo" command. Remember to put "sudo" before every command with apt-get! (For example, instead of "apt-get python2.7" the command would be "sudo apt-get python2.7).

Install Python

The latest Python 2.7 version is currently recommended.

For Debian-based systems like Ubuntu:

sudo su -
apt-get install python2.7

Install Python Libraries

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

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: apt-get install python-xlwt
• ​xlrd for reading spreadsheets (used by survey to import data held on a spreadsheet) apt-get install python-xlrd

• ​numpy required by matplotlib
• ​SciPy required for S3Cube
• ​MatPlotLib for charts (used in the Survey & Delphi applications & for the S3Cube pivottable reports)

• ​setuptools for installing tweepy
• ​tweepy python library to interact with twitter
• ​Pyserial for SMS Features

• ​PyTZ for Timezone awareness
• ​PyWURFL for Browser Capabilities (unused currently)

• ​MySQLDB for accessing MySQL databases: apt-get install python-mysqldb
• ​Psycopg for accessing PostgreSQL databases: apt-get install python-psycopg2

Install Bzr

We use the ​Bazaar Distributed Version Control System

• apt-get install bzr

Next

Install Web2Py & Sahana:

• InstallationGuidelines/Developer/PostPython