Installing Aristotle on Ubuntu

Overview

Directions for installing Aristotle on a Ubuntu 11.04 server running on virtual machine.

Installing supporting software

Before installing the remainder of the Python supporting modules, make sure you have the Gnu C++ compiler installed. These packages were installed in the following order:

1. As super-user, install gcc with apt-get $ sudo apt-get install gcc
2. As super-user, install the dpkg-dev with apt-get $ sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev
3. As super-user, install curl $ sudo apt-get install curl
4. As super-user, install libxml2-dev $ sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
5. As super-user, install memcached $ sudo apt-get install memcached
6. As super-user, install libxslt1-dev $ sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev
7. As super-user, install python-dev $ sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev
8. As super-user, install python-flup $ sudo apt-get install python-flup

Installing Django

The Tutt Library uses the Python-based web framework called Django. Please follow the steps listed below.

1. Download stable version of Django (currently 1.3)
2. From the command-line decompress tar file: $ tar xzvf Django-1.3.tar.gz
3. Change directories to the Django-1.3
4. Install Django w/ super-user: $ sudo python setup.py install

Installing Aristotle Python Supporting Modules

The Aristotle Django project for all the Tutt Library Python development requires the following Python modules for its functionality. Please download and install in this order of modules (some modules require some dependencies to be installed first)

distribute - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute

1. Download the distribute installation script: $ wget http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
2. Install distribute w/super-user: $ sudo python distribute_setup.py install

pip - http://www.pip-installer.org

1. Download the pip installer script: $ curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
2. Install pip w/super-user $ sudo python get-pip.py

httplib2 - http://code.google.com/p/httplib2/

1. Download the latest version of httplib2: $ wget http://httplib2.googlecode.com/files/httplib2-0.7.1.tar.gz
2. Extract the tar file: $ tar -xf httplib2-0.7.1.tar.gz
3. Go to the extracted directory: $ cd httplib2-0.7.1
4. Install httplib2 with super-user: $ sudo python setup.py install

lxml - http://lxml.de/

1. Install lxml using pip w/super-user: $ sudo pip install lxml

sunburnt - https://github.com/tow/sunburnt/

1. Install sunburnt using pip w/super-user $ sudo pip install sunburnt

eulxml - https://github.com/emory-libraries/eulxml

1. Install eulxml using pip w/super-user $ sudo pip install eulxml

eulfedora - https://github.com/emory-libraries/eulfedora

1. Install eulxml using pip w/super-user $ sudo pip install eulfedora