Installing a released version in a virtualenv

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It is highly recommended to use a separate virtualenv_ for installing Kallithea.

This way, all libraries required by Kallithea will be installed separately from your

main Python installation and other applications and things will be less

problematic when upgrading the system or Kallithea.

An additional benefit of virtualenv_ is that it doesn't require root privileges.

- Assuming you have installed virtualenv_, create a new virtual environment

  for example, in `/srv/kallithea/venv`, using the virtualenv command::

    virtualenv /srv/kallithea/venv

- Activate the virtualenv_ in your current shell session and make sure the

  basic requirements are up-to-date by running::

    source /srv/kallithea/venv/bin/activate

    pip install --upgrade pip setuptools

.. note:: You can't use UNIX ``sudo`` to source the ``virtualenv`` script; it

   will "activate" a shell that terminates immediately. It is also perfectly

   acceptable (and desirable) to create a virtualenv as a normal user.

- Make a folder for Kallithea data files, and configuration somewhere on the

  filesystem. For example::

    mkdir /srv/kallithea

- Go into the created directory and run this command to install Kallithea::

    pip install kallithea

  Alternatively, download a .tar.gz from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Kallithea,

  extract it and run::

    python2 setup.py install

- This will install Kallithea together with pylons_ and all other required

  python libraries into the activated virtualenv.

You can now proceed to :ref:`setup`.

.. _installation-without-virtualenv:

Installing a released version without virtualenv

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