Building volttron from fresh clone does not work reliably

[fstshrk]

Following the instructions on https://github.com/VOLTTRON/volttron/wiki/BuildingTheProject using a fresh install of ubuntu 14.04.

In the third step, (./buildout), the first time I run it, I get

bora@beach:~/workspace/volttron$ python bootstrap.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "bootstrap.py", line 79, in
exec(urlopen('https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/0.7.2/ez_setup.py'
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen
return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 503: SERVICE UNAVAILABLE

Running it a second time, it seems to work.

Also, we need to add a list of required ubuntu packages.

[fstshrk]

On Linux, we at least need build-essential and libssl-dev
libevent-dev

[hashstat]

The system dependencies are all in the README along with instructions for installing them.

[fstshrk]

Are they also on the wiki?
On Jun 11, 2014 3:40 PM, "hashstat" notifications@github.com wrote:

The system dependencies are all in the README
https://github.com/VOLTTRON/volttron/blob/1.x/README along with
instructions for installing them.

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[hashstat]

I added them to the DevleopmentPrerequisites page. But we should probably make that page reference the README as it will likely be kept more up-to-date.

[craig8]

I believe this issue was for 2.x version. @fstshrk have you tried this with the master branch lately? Can we close this issue with the updated README

[fstshrk]

Yes, please close.

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Craig notifications@github.com wrote:

I believe this issue was for 2.x version. @fstshrk
https://github.com/fstshrk have you tried this with the master branch
lately? Can we close this issue with the updated README
https://github.com/VOLTTRON/volttron/blob/master/README

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