syntax: glob

*.pyc

*.swp

*.sqlite

*.tox

*.egg-info

*.egg

syntax: regexp

^rcextensions

^build

^dist/

^docs/build/

^docs/_build/

^data$

^sql_dumps/

^\.settings$

^\.project$

^\.pydevproject$

^\.coverage$

^kallithea\.db$

^test\.db$

^Kallithea\.egg-info$

^my\.ini$

^fabfile.py

^\.idea$

.. _installation:

==========================

Installation on Unix/Linux

==========================

**Kallithea** is written entirely in Python_ and requires Python version

2.6 or higher. Python 3.x is currently not supported.

There are several ways to install Kallithea:

- :ref:`installation-source`: The Kallithea development repository is stable

  and can be used in production. In fact, the Kallithea maintainers do

  use it in production. The advantage of installation from source and regularly

  updating it is that you take advantage of the most recent improvements, which

  is particularly useful because Kallithea is evolving rapidly.

- :ref:`installation-virtualenv`: If you prefer to only use released versions

  of Kallithea, the recommended method is to install Kallithea in a virtual

  Python environment using `virtualenv`. The advantages of this method over

  direct installation is that Kallithea and its dependencies are completely

  contained inside the virtualenv (which also means you can have multiple

  installations side by side or remove it entirely by just removing the

  virtualenv directory) and does not require root privileges.

- :ref:`installation-without-virtualenv`: The alternative method of installing

  a Kallithea release is using standard pip. The package will be installed in

  the same location as all other Python packages you have ever installed. As a

  result, removing it is not as straightforward as with a virtualenv, as you'd

  have to remove its dependencies manually and make sure that they are not

  needed by other packages.

.. _installation-source:

Installation from repository source

-----------------------------------

To install Kallithea from source in a virtualenv, follow the instructions

below::

        hg clone https://kallithea-scm.org/repos/kallithea

        cd kallithea

        virtualenv ../kallithea-venv

        source ../kallithea-venv/bin/activate

        python setup.py develop

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

To upgrade, simply update the repository with ``hg pull -u`` and restart the

server.

.. _installation-virtualenv:

Installing a released version in a virtualenv

---------------------------------------------

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 by running::

    source /srv/kallithea/venv/bin/activate

.. 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::

    python 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`.