############# NSoT on CentOS Install Instructions #############
This installation guide assumes that you have installed CentOS 12.4 on your machine, and are wanting to install NSoT. This guide will help you install NSoT and then run it locally from a browser window.
1. Install Python, Dependencies, PIP, and NSOT ==============
To ensure your CentOS installation is up to date, please update it. Once complete, open a command prompt and run the following:
$ sudo yum install -y nodejs mod_ssl openssl git
$ sudo yum install -y python-devel
$ sudo yum install -y libffi-devel openssl-devel
$ sudo yum install -y epel-release
$ sudo yum install -y python-pip
Next you'll need to upgrade Pip to the latest version
$ sudo pip install --upgrade pip
To complete the prerequisites, we'll need some more Python Compilers and dev tools
$ sudo yum install -y gcc-plugin-devel python-devel
$ sudo pip install requests[security]
Now we are ready to Pip install NSoT and MrProxy. MrProxy is there to handle the proxy connections NSoT will require.
$ sudo pip install nsot mrproxy
Finally we'll download the NSoT repository, via Git, to the /tmp/nsot directory.
$ git clone https://github.com/dropbox/nsot /tmp/nsot
At this point NSoT is installed, the repository should be downloaded, Python and all dependencies are working, and you can go poke around in the /tmp/nsot directory.
- To Run NSoT, we start the server at the command line.
$ cd /tmp/nsot/demo
$ ./run_demo.sh
The server should come up, and begin listening for requests from the web browser.
Now you may view NSoT from your local browser of your choice. Open the following URL, which will automatically log you in as the user admin@localhost:
(Note that you you may need to disable some internal software firewalls to allow a connection to this virtual machine.)