OpenSlides/INSTALL.txt

Installation Instructions for OpenSlides 1.3
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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)
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  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
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  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:

        Go to the (extracted/cloned) root directory of OpenSlides
        and create virtualenv environment:

        $ virtualenv .venv

        For virtualenv >= 1.7 use instead:
        $ virtualenv --system-site-packages .venv

  4. Activate the virtual environment:

        $ source .venv/bin/activate

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. 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)
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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.