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Option 2: Install from Source

This section describes how to install CKAN from source. Whereas :doc:`install-from-package` requires Ubuntu 10.04, this way of installing CKAN is more flexible to work with other distributions and operating systems. Please share your experiences on our wiki: http://wiki.ckan.org/Install

This is also the option to use if you are going to develop the CKAN source.

Warning

This option is more complex than :doc:`install-from-package`.

There is a page of help for dealing with :doc:`common-error-messages`.

For support during installation, please contact the ckan-dev mailing list.

Install the Source

  1. Ensure the required packages are installed.

    If you have access to apt-get, you can install these packages as follows:

    sudo apt-get install mercurial python-dev postgresql libpq-dev
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python-virtualenv
sudo apt-get install wget build-essential git-core subversion
sudo apt-get install solr-jetty openjdk-6-jdk

    Otherwise, you should install these packages from source.

    Package

    Description

    mercurial

    Source control

    python

    Python v2.5-2.7

    postgresql

    PostgreSQL database

    libpq

    PostgreSQL library

    libxml2

    XML library development files

    libxslt

    XSLT library development files

    virtualenv

    Python virtual environments

    wget

    Command line tool for downloading from the web

    build-essential

    Tools for building source code (or up-to-date Xcode on Mac)

    git

    Git source control (for getting MarkupSafe src)

    subversion

    Subversion source control (for pyutilib)

    solr

    Search engine

    jetty

    HTTP server (used for Solr)

    openjdk-6-jdk

    OpenJDK Java library

  2. Create a Python virtual environment.

    In your home directory run the command below. It is currently important to call your virtual environment pyenv so that the automated deployment tools work correctly.

    cd ~
virtualenv pyenv

    Tip

    If you don't have a python-virtualenv package in your distribution you can get a virtualenv.py script from within the virtualenv source distribution and then run python virtualenv.py pyenv instead.

    To help with automatically installing CKAN dependencies we use a tool called pip. Make sure you have activated your environment (see step 3) and then install it from an activated shell like this:

    easy_install pip

  3. Activate your virtual environment.

    To work with CKAN it is best to adjust your shell settings so that your shell uses the virtual environment you just created. You can do this like so:

    . pyenv/bin/activate

    When your shell is activated you will see the prompt change to something like this:

    (pyenv)[ckan@host ~/]$

    An activated shell looks in your virtual environment first when choosing which commands to run. If you enter python now it will actually run ~/pyenv/bin/python, not the default /usr/bin/python which is what you want for CKAN. You can install python packages install this new environment and they won't affect the default /usr/bin/python. This is necessary so you can use particular versions of python packages, rather than the ones installed with default paython, and these installs do not affect other python software on your system that may not be compatible with these packages.

  4. Install CKAN code and other required Python packages into the new environment.

    Choose which version of CKAN to install. Released versions are listed at https://github.com/okfn/ckan - click on the list of tags. For example: ckan-1.5

    pip install --ignore-installed -e git+https://github.com/okfn/ckan.git@ckan-1.5#egg=ckan

    Alternatively, if you are to develop CKAN, then you will probably want to use the latest 'bleeding edge' code. If using this version, we suggest you check CKAN has passed the automatic tests. Here is how to install the latest code:

    pip install --ignore-installed -e git+https://github.com/okfn/ckan.git#egg=ckan

  5. CKAN has a set of dependencies it requires which you should install too. These are listed in three text files: requires/lucid_*.txt, followed by WebOb explicitly.

    First we install two of the three lists of dependencies:

    pip install --ignore-installed -r pyenv/src/ckan/requires/lucid_missing.txt -r pyenv/src/ckan/requires/lucid_conflict.txt
pip install webob==1.0.8

    The --ignore-installed option ensures pip installs software into this virtual environment even if it is already present on the system.

    WebOb has to be installed explicitly afterwards because by installing pylons with --ignore-installed you end up with a newer (incompatible) version than the one that Pylons and CKAN need.

    Now to install the remaining dependencies in requires/lucid_present.txt and you are using Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 you can install the system versions:

    sudo apt-get install python-pybabel python-psycopg2 python-lxml
sudo apt-get install python-sphinx python-pylons python-repoze.who
sudo apt-get install python-repoze.who-plugins python-tempita python-zope.interface

    Alternatively, if you are not using Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 you'll need to install them like this:

    pip install --ignore-installed -r pyenv/src/ckan/requires/lucid_present.txt

    This will take a long time. Particularly the install of the lxml package.

    At this point you will need to deactivate and then re-activate your virtual environment to ensure that all the scripts point to the correct locations:

    deactivate
. pyenv/bin/activate

  6. Setup a PostgreSQL database.

List existing databases:

sudo -u postgres psql -l

It is advisable to ensure that the encoding of databases is 'UTF8', or internationalisation may be a problem. Since changing the encoding of PostgreSQL may mean deleting existing databases, it is suggested that this is fixed before continuing with the CKAN install.

Next you'll need to create a database user if one doesn't already exist.

Tip

If you choose a database name, user or password which are different from the example values suggested below then you'll need to change the sqlalchemy.url value accordingly in the CKAN configuration file you'll create in the next step.

Here we create a user called ckanuser and will enter pass for the password when prompted:

sudo -u postgres createuser -S -D -R -P ckanuser

Now create the database (owned by ckanuser), which we'll call ckantest:

sudo -u postgres createdb -O ckanuser ckantest
  1. Create a CKAN config file.

Make sure you are in an activated environment (see step 3) so that Python Paste and other modules are put on the python path (your command prompt will start with (pyenv) if you have) then change into the ckan directory which will have been created when you installed CKAN in step 4 and create the CKAN config file using Paste. These instructions call it development.ini since that is the required name for running the CKAN tests. But for a server deployment then you might want to call it say after the server hostname e.g. test.ckan.net.ini.

cd pyenv/src/ckan
paster make-config ckan development.ini

If you used a different database name or password when creating the database in step 6 you'll need to now edit development.ini and change the sqlalchemy.url line, filling in the database name, user and password you used.

sqlalchemy.url = postgresql://ckanuser:pass@localhost/ckantest

If you're using a remote host with password authentication rather than SSL authentication, use:

sqlalchemy.url = postgresql://<user>:<password>@<remotehost>/ckan?sslmode=disable

Caution!

Advanced users: If you have installed CKAN using the Fabric file capability (deprecated), your config file will be called something like pyenv/ckan.net.ini. This is fine but CKAN probably won't be able to find your who.ini file. To fix this edit pyenv/ckan.net.ini, search for the line who.config_file = %(here)s/who.ini and change it to who.config_file = who.ini.

We are moving to a new deployment system where this incompatibility will be fixed.

  1. Setup Solr.

    Set up Solr following the instructions on :ref:`solr-single` or :ref:`solr-multi-core` depending on your needs.

    Set appropriate values for the ckan.site_id and solr_url config variables in your CKAN config file:

    ckan.site_id=my_ckan_instance
solr_url=http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr

  2. Create database tables.

Now that you have a configuration file that has the correct settings for your database, you'll need to create the tables. Make sure you are still in an activated environment with (pyenv) at the front of the command prompt and then from the pyenv/src/ckan directory run this command.

If your config file is called development.ini:

paster --plugin=ckan db init

or if your config file is something else, you need to specify it. e.g.:

paster --plugin=ckan db init --config=test.ckan.net.ini

You should see Initialising DB: SUCCESS.

If the command prompts for a password it is likely you haven't set up the database configuration correctly in step 6.

  1. Create the cache directory.

You need to create the Pylon's cache directory specified by 'cache_dir' in the config file.

(from the pyenv/src/ckan directory):

mkdir data
  1. Run the CKAN webserver.

NB If you've started a new shell, you'll have to activate the environment again first - see step 3.

(from the pyenv/src/ckan directory):

paster serve development.ini

  1. Point your web browser at: http://127.0.0.1:5000/

    The CKAN homepage should load.

Finally, make sure that tests pass, as described in :ref:`basic-tests`.

You can now proceed to :doc:`post-installation`.