Salt Development Environment

gistfile1.sh

## Get OS/build dependancies
$ sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev build-essential libtool autoconf automake swig uuid-dev python-m2crypto

## Download 0MQ
$ wget http://download.zeromq.org/zeromq-2.2.0.tar.gz

## Unpack
$ tar -xvzf zeromq-2.2.0.tar.gz

## CD into dir
$ cd zeromq-2.2.0/

## configure and make (upon configure's success)
$ ./configure && make

## make install
$ sudo make install

## per 6. On Linux, run sudo ldconfig after installing ØMQ. 
## http://www.zeromq.org/area:download
$ sudo ldconfig

## Fork Salt Repo
$ https://github.com/saltstack/salt/fork

## Clone your Salt Fork -- replace $username
$ git clone git://github.com/$username/salt.git

$ cd salt

## create virtualenv
## we need system-site-packages because m2crypto via PIP is broken
## http://vitorpellegrino.com/blog/2012/01/11/undefined-symbol-sslv2-method-in-ubuntu-11-10-and-12-04-alpha-1-installing-lernanta/
## https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/391

$ virtualenv --system-site-packages venv

## activate virtualenv
$ source venv/bin/activate

## comment out M2Crypto in requirements.txt

# pip requirements file for Salt
Jinja2
#M2Crypto
msgpack-python
PyCrypto
PyYAML
pyzmq >= 2.1.9

## install requirements
(venv)$ pip install -r requirements.txt

(venv)$ python
>> import salt
>>

Success!