Django Workshop - Work space Setup on CentOS

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High level overview using Centos

• Install dev tools and compilers
• Install Python 2.7.12
• Install Python package manager - pip.
• Install Python environment manager - virtualenv
• Download source code

Installation

• Install development tools.

#!shell
sudo yum -y groupinstall "Development tools"
sudo yum -y install zlib-devel bzip2-devel openssl-devel ncurses-devel readline-devel tk-devel gdbm-devel db4-devel xz-devel vim htop libevent-devel python-devel wget telnet mysql-devel postgresql-devel

• Install Python.

#!shell
mkdir Downloads
cd Downloads/

wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.12/Python-2.7.12.tar.xz
tar xf Python-2.7.12.tar.xz
cd Python-2.7.12

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-unicode=ucs4 --enable-shared LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib"
make && sudo make altinstall
sudo cp /usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-dynload/_sqlite3.so /usr/local/lib/python2.7/sqlite3/

• Install pip, virtualenv

#!shell
cd /tmp
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo /usr/local/bin/python2.7 get-pip.py

• Pull the source code

#!shell
sudo mkdir -p /var/www

sudo chown appuser /var/www
cd /var/www
git clone https://github.com/sivaa/pycon2014-django-workshop.git

• Create virtualenv

#!shell
sudo /usr/local/bin/pip install virtualenv
mkdir $HOME/.virtualenvs
virtualenv ~/.virtualenvs/fav

vim ~/.bashrc
# Add next two line to ~/.bashrc
export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
. $WORKON_HOME/fav/bin/activate

source ~/.bashrc

• Install app dependencies

#!shell
cd /var/www/fav
pip install -r requirements.txt

• Verify the installation of dependencies

    pip freeze
  

Other Tools

• Install the sqliteman SQLite Browser
• Install latest FireFox/Chrome
• Your favorite text editor / IDE