Install graphite in a virtualenv (for my webfaction server)

gistfile1.txt

# this script will install whisper, carbon and graphite-web on the current directory

sudo apt-get python-dev

mkvirtualenv --system-site-packages graphite

pip install twisted
pip install django
pip install django-tagging
pip install gunicorn

SITE_PACKAGE=`virtualenvwrapper_get_site_packages_dir`
DIR=`pwd`

pip install whisper
pip install carbon --install-option="--prefix=$DIR" --install-option="--install-lib=$SITE_PACKAGE"
pip install graphite-web --install-option="--prefix=$DIR" --install-option="--install-lib=$SITE_PACKAGE"

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/lib/pkgconfig
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib

# install pycairo dependencies
wget http://www.cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.28.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf pixman-0.28.0.tar.gz
cd pixman-0.28.0
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install
cd ..

wget http://www.cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.12.8.tar.xz
tar -xJf cairo-1.12.8.tar.xz 
cd cairo-1.12.8
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install
cd ..

wget http://www.cairographics.org/releases/py2cairo-1.10.0.tar.bz2
tar -xjf py2cairo-1.10.0.tar.bz2
cd py2cairo-1.10.0
./waf configure --prefix=$VIRTUAL_ENV
./waf build
./waf install
cd ..

rm -rf cairo-1.12.8*
rm -rf pixman-0.28.0*
rm -rf py2cairo-1.10.0*

# configure graphite-web paths
GRAPHITE_WEB_SETTINGS=$SITE_PACKAGE/graphite/local_settings.py
cp $GRAPHITE_WEB_SETTINGS{.example,}
cat >> $GRAPHITE_WEB_SETTINGS <<EOF
GRAPHITE_ROOT = '$DIR'
CONF_DIR = GRAPHITE_ROOT + '/conf'
STORAGE_DIR = GRAPHITE_ROOT +  '/storage'
CONTENT_DIR = GRAPHITE_ROOT + '/webapp/content'
DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'NAME': GRAPHITE_ROOT + '/storage/graphite.db',
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'USER': '',
        'PASSWORD': '',
        'HOST': '',
        'PORT': ''
    }
}
EOF

# run syncdb
django-admin.py syncdb --settings graphite.settings

Hi!

I'm trying to setup graphite on my webfaction account too. Any idea what changes I need to make to be able to post data to carbon from other machines?

How come there is sudo in the script when it is meant to be run on Webfaction? Are you using a VPS?