Prerequisites¶
The feincms-in-a-box project template has a few prerequisites. This page explains how to prepare your system for the initial setup and continued development.
Operating system-specific instructions¶
Debian and Ubuntu¶
Install the following libraries, tools and services:
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev python-pip \
python-virtualenv libjpeg8-dev liblcms2-dev libopenjpeg-dev libwebp-dev \
libpng12-dev libtiff4-dev libxslt1-dev libfreetype6-dev \
postgresql-9.3 postgresql-server-dev-9.3 gettext npm redis-server
Note
Other versions of PostgreSQL will work as well if you are running a different version of Debian or Ubuntu.
OS X¶
An installation of the Xcode command line tools is required:
xcode-select --install
It is recommended to use Homebrew for all additional dependencies:
brew install gettext libxslt libxml2 jpeg freetype libpng
brew install libtiff node postgresql redis sqlite
brew link --force gettext libxml2 libxslt
It will also help to add a clean installation of Python:
brew install python python3
It is not required to set up an installation of PostgreSQL which runs in the
background. Adding the following lines to your ~/.bash_profile and starting
postgres in the shell is good enough for local development:
echo "export PGDATA=/usr/local/var/postgres" >> ~/.bash_profile
You can also just install the Postgres App. You then need to add the app to the PATH variable (depending on the version):
PATH="/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.4/bin:$PATH"
Note
You’ll have to open a new Terminal, otherwise the PGDATA of .profile
environment variable will not be available.
Python-based command line tools¶
We also require a few Python-based command line tools, virtualenv, Fabric and flake8:
pip install -U pip
pip install -U setuptools
pip install -U wheel
pip install -U virtualenv fabric flake8