Missing Info on Dependencies

[sroberts]

Working directly off the instructions on the wiki starting up osxcollector on a new 10.10 machine led to a number of errors related to missing Python dependencies.

Specifically I needed to run: sudo pip install xattr pyobjc

This may be confusing to new users. Since most of the documentation is in the wiki would you want that information in there or as something added to the README? I'm happy to submit a PR if I can.

[ivanlei]

The goal is to have no dependencies necessary for a fresh machine. I'll verify in a VM. Maybe it's 10.10 changes.

[sroberts]

I can certainly see that as ideal. Curious if I did something incorrectly.

[ivanlei]

You're really not supposed to be able to do anything incorrectly. I'll figure out what's up tomorrow when I have sometime with some VMs.

[sroberts]

🤘

[ivanlei]

So running in a fresh 10.10 VM I did the following:

• Install firefox, chrome, homebrew, git
• download something in each browser
• run collection

No errors so far. Lemme try to avoid homebrew and see if that produces an error.

[ivanlei]

Yeah, totes clean machine and it just works. I dunno why you need to install anything. I'm imagining your python environment is a bit wonky. @sroberts are you running in a virtualenv or something?

[ivanlei]

Talked with @sroberts and it's working for him now.

[x44x45x41x4E]

Hmmmnnn. I've had this issue now. I still need to install both dependencies. Using ZSH on my iTerm and installed python via homebrew. If you need any more info about my machine's current setup, let me know. I'm not familliar with Python that much so I must be missing something. It did work after installing both depedencies with some errors though (I'll look up those errors first before opening an issue or asking).

Thanks.