install.rst

Install a development environment for lettuce

Here are guidelines to get a development environment for lettuce.

OS specific

Here are repcipes for specific operating systems. They should help you go fast or automate lettuce installation procedure:

install-debian-squeeze

Generic guidelines

Dependencies

you will need to install these dependencies in order to hack lettuce :)

All of them are used within lettuce tests.

you could use a virtualenv

bash

mkvirtualenv lettuce
workon lettuce
pip install -r requirements.txt

or just install manually

bash

sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

or do it really from scratch

• [nose](http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/)

  > [sudo] pip install nose

• [mox](http://code.google.com/p/pymox/)

  > [sudo] pip install mox

• [sphinx](http://sphinx.pocoo.org/)

  > [sudo] pip install sphinx

• [lxml](http://codespeak.net/lxml/)

  > [sudo] pip install lxml

• [tornado](http://tornadoweb.org/)

  > [sudo] pip install tornado

• [django](http://djangoproject.com/)

  > [sudo] pip install django

Installing lettuce itself

bash

[sudo] python setup.py develop