Sorry to hear that you have had trouble! If you just want to test it out, I agree with Adam that the demo installation is a good option. The direct link to that is http://v4demo.archesproject.org/
Ben On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 at 12:23, Adam Cox <mr.adam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, the error you found won't be especially difficult to overcome, but > it does sound like perhaps you may like to just try out the demo > installation that you can get to from the archesproject.org home page? > > To handle the error, you'll need to activate your virtual environment, as > described in step 3 of the installation guide you linked to. > > Hope that helps! > Adam > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 2:01 PM 'Researcher' via Arches Project < > archesproject@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I've been struggling through trying to install Arches all day today >> (historian background, not IT professional!) and I thought I was getting >> somewhere reaching the point where it told me Arches had been installed (in >> Windows command prompt) but even our IT support are unable to get very far >> beyond that. Anyone got any advice? Is there a simpler way? I just wanted >> to try out the software, not get a degree in coding before I had even seen >> what it looked like. >> I tried to run step 7 on the install guide: >> https://arches.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation/ >> but it says you need elasticsearch running. I tried to install >> elasticsearch from the "easiest way" (dread to think what the hard way >> looks like) as per below: >> >> The easiest way to install Elasticsearch is to use a command that comes >> with Arches. Once you have installed Arches (either with pip or from the >> Arches >> repo <https://github.com/archesproject/arches>), activate your virtual >> environment, enter your app/project root directory (the one that contains >> manage.py), run >> >> python manage.py es install >> >> Elasticsearch will be installed in the root folder. You can specify an >> alternate destination for the installation by using the -d argument. For >> example >> >> python manage.py es install -d C:\Projects >> >> will result in a new directory C:\Projects\elasticsearch-5.2.1 from >> which you’ll be able to run Elasticsearch. >> >> I tried this and got the following: >> (ENV) C:\Users\FIMNT\my_project>python manage.py es install >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "manage.py", line 27, in <module> >> from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line >> ImportError: No module named django.core.management >> >> Obviously I or the software have done something wrong but I've spent the >> entire day working like this with every single step having some kind of >> problem and our IT support service is also struggling to see why it's >> having so many issues. >> Anyone able to guide us through in a simpler way, enlighten me past this >> step and onto the next error or should I give up on Arches now seeing as >> it's taken me a day and I can't even install it, yet alone set it up or >> operate it? >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To >> unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more information, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Arches Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, > send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more > information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Arches Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
