Installing and Configuring Quail

Installing

First, make sure you've got Python 2.7.x on your system.

open a terminal, and go to quail's folder
For debugging and other times where you would want to see Quail's stdout/stderr, run ./quail.py go
In a production environment, Quail can be started as a daemon. (./quail.py start, ./quail.py stop, ./quail.py restart)

Quail will create all these config files for you. If you want to edit them, read on...

In config/config.json:

secret: passphrase needed to make queries.
port: TCP network port that the server should run on
color: uses ANSI colors in server console; Windows users should set this to false
log-file: location of the log file, the defualt is fine in most cases

In plugins/wa/info.json:

key: go to http://products.wolframalpha.com/developers/ and get an api key. Put this here.

In plugins/weather/info.json:

key: go to http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/ and get an api key. Put this here.