BookCloud

A collaborative platform to write books based on git

Get the code

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/livro-aberto/BookCloud.git

Add the submodules:

git submodule init

Install requisites

These are some installation instructions (for Ubuntu or Debian):

sudo apt-get install python python-pip python-dev python-virtualenv

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi

sudo apt-get install poppler-utils

sudo apt-get install libffi-dev libssl-dev python-bcrypt

For Debian 8:

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
sudo apt-get install npm

For Debian 9:

sudo apt-get install libmariadbclient-dev

Clone this repository, enter the BookCloud folder and create the virtual environment:

virtualenv vir

Enter the virtual environment:

source vir/bin/activate

Then install the python requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Type deactivate if you want to exit the virtualenv.

To install sql

Install the database

On Debian 8:

sudo apt-get install mysql mysql-server

On Debian 9:

sudo apt-get install mariadb-client mariadb-server

Add a root password. First login as root (which may have to be run under sudo):

mysql -u root -p

Create a new user for bookcloud

CREATE USER '<newusersname>'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';

Grant user access to the database. To simplify, you can grant access to anything:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * TO '<newusersname>'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Log out with root (pressing Ctr-D), then log in with the new user:

mysql -u <newusersname> -p

Create a new database

CREATE DATABASE <databasename>;

Usually bookcloud is a good name for the database.

Configuring the app

Create config file for sphinx:

cp conf/conf_default.py conf/conf.py

and check there all the parameters you would like to change for the compilation.

Now create the config for the app

cp instance/instance_config_default.py instance/instance_config.py

and edit the instance/instance_config.py file. Specially:

1. Change your secret key
2. Setup your email

Create all tables in database

Remember to enter the virtual environment if not yet there:

source vir/bin/activate

Enter the migrations folder and type

alembic upgrade head

You could get an error of package not found if your alembic is installed system-wide (thus it will not find the packages in the virtual environment). In this case run

python -m alembic.config upgrade head

Install JavaScript requirements

First install bower

sudo npm install -g bower

Then go to folder application/static/vendor and try

bower install

If you get /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory, then you may have to change the name of the executable for node.js like that:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

Add translations

You may need:

source vir/bin/activate

Then in application folder type:

pybabel compile -d translations