Page "BloodhoundInstall" was changed by gjm Diff URL: <https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound/wiki/BloodhoundInstall?action=diff&version=18> Revision 18 Comment: revised installation instructions for python, pip and virtualenv Changes: -------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<-------- Index: BloodhoundInstall ========================================================================= --- BloodhoundInstall (version: 17) +++ BloodhoundInstall (version: 18) @@ -6,28 +6,25 @@ == General Prerequisites == As a base for installing Bloodhound, the rest of this document expects that you have the following installed on your system: - * [http://www.python.org/ Python] >= 2.6 and < 2.7.4 - * [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#id1 setuptools] + * [http://www.python.org/ Python] >= 2.6 and < 3 * [http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html pip] - -On Windows you will have to install python, setuptools and pip through the links above and set/adjust the following environmental variables (assuming Python 2.7.* is chosen) - * add a {{{PYTHON_HOME}}} system variable with the value {{{C:\Python27}}} - * append {{{;%PYTHON_HOME%;%PYTHON_HOME%\scripts}}} to the path system variable - -On modern linux distributions, the appropriate packages are usually available in the distribution's standard repositories - for example on Ubuntu, you should be able to do the following: - {{{ - sudo apt-get install python python-setuptools python-pip - }}} - -At the moment it is also recommended that you install virtualenv with either - {{{ - sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv - }}} -on ubuntu or - {{{ - sudo pip install virtualenv - }}} -as for systems with existing python installations, it allows you to install packages with lower impact to the system provided installation. In addition, virtualenv is a requirement if you wish to take advantage of the installer script. + * [http://www.virtualenv.org/en/latest/ virtualenv] - note that if you have this, you should already have pip installed. + +There are good guides available for installing each of the above on a number of operating systems including: + * [https://python-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/starting/install/win.html Installing Python on Windows] + * [https://python-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/starting/install/osx.html Installing Python on Mac OS X] + +Modern linux distributions often already have the required packages available in their repositories: + * For Debian (>= 5.0), Ubuntu (>= 9.4), Mint (>= 7) and other Debian or Ubuntu based systems, if you have admin access through sudo you can run + {{{ +sudo apt-get install python python-virtualenv + }}} + * For Fedora (>= 11), Centos (>= 6.4), RHEL (>= 6.4) and other distributions that make use of {{{yum}}} you can try + {{{ +sudo yum install python python-virtualenv + }}} + +Many other linux and *BSD distributions will have their own package management systems and repositories containing the appropriate packages. == Databases == Apache Bloodhound also requires a database and it supports the following popular databases: [http://sqlite.org/ SQLite], [http://www.postgresql.org/ PostgreSQL], and [http://mysql.com/ MySQL]. -------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<--------
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