plock

Plock is a Plone Installer for the Pip-loving Crowd

Note

Installing Plone with Plock requires an internet connection. If you want to install Plone offline, try Plone's Unified Installer.

Warning

Installing Plone with Plock is inherently insecure because it relies on a remote hosted configuration file(s) that in theory could be compromised during a MITM-attack.

Installation

Note

Plock supports the latest release (and only the latest release) of Plone, currently Plone 4.3.

Installing Plone with Plock looks like this:

$ pip install plock
$ bin/install-plone
$ bin/plone fg

Configuration

Plone uses Buildout to manage its installation and configuration. Plock creates a buildout.cfg file for you that looks like this:

[buildout]
extends = https://raw.github.com/pythonpackages/buildout-plone/master/latest

[plone]
eggs +=
# Add-ons go here e.g.:
#    Products.PloneFormGen

Add-ons

Note

See https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browse&show=all&c=563 for a complete list of add-ons compatible with Plone 4.3.

To install add-ons, add the desired Python package name(s) to the eggs += parameter e.g.:

[buildout]
extends = https://raw.github.com/pythonpackages/buildout-plone/master/latest

[plone]
eggs +=
    Products.PloneFormGen

Stop Plone and run Buildout:

$ bin/buildout

Start Plone:

$ bin/plone fg

Install the add-on(s) in Plone via Site Setup -> Add-ons.