.. highlight:: bash .. _use-install: *************************************************************** Installing Limnoria on GNU/Linux and UNIX (FreeBSD, macOS, ...) *************************************************************** This is the "easy to follow" guide to installing Limnoria. The installation documentation provided with the supybot distribution is really quite good already, but since people keep coming to IRC, asking a repeating pattern of questions, we thought it would be a good idea to expand it a bit to make it a little more of a "foolproof guide". This guide is for non-Windows operating systems. If you want to install on Windows, check out the :ref:`Windows install guide `. .. note:: Limnoria is a modified version of Supybot. Install ******* Install using your OS' package manager ====================================== On Debian (8.0 and above) ------------------------- .. code-block:: bash sudo aptitude install limnoria If you have Debian 8.0 (Jessie), this command won't work unless you have `Backports`_ repositories configured. .. _Backports: https://wiki.debian.org/Backports On Ubuntu (16.10 and above) --------------------------- .. code-block:: bash sudo apt-get install limnoria On Fedora (23 and above) ------------------------ .. code-block:: bash sudo dnf install limnoria On CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux -------------------------------------- You have to first add the EPEL repository (`EL7`_, `EL6`_, `EL5`_) before being able to install the package on CentOS / RHEL. Once you have, you can run the following command to install Limnoria: .. code-block:: bash sudo yum install limnoria .. _EL7: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm .. _EL6: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm .. _EL5: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm On FreeBSD ---------- Port: .. code-block:: bash cd /usr/ports/irc/py-limnoria && sudo PYTHON_VERSION=3.5 make install clean You can omit ``PYTHON_VERSION=3.5`` if you want to build for Python 2.7, or if you have ``DEFAULT_VERSIONS=python=3.5`` in `/etc/make.conf`. Package: .. code-block:: bash sudo pkg install py27-limnoria On Archlinux ------------ You can install Limnoria `from AUR`_. .. _from AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/limnoria-python3-git/ On Gentoo --------- .. code-block:: bash sudo emerge net-irc/limnoria Other operating systems (manual install) ======================================== If you followed the section above, skip this one. Dependencies ------------ The only mandatory dependency is `Python`_ 2.6 or greater. However, it is highly recommended you use Python 3.4 or greater. You may also install chardet and feedparser, which are used by Limnoria if they are available. The remaining of this guide will assume you have Python 3. If you don't, replace `python3` by `python` in the given commands .. _Python: http://www.python.org/ Install Python -------------- Python will usually come by installed by default in your distribution. If not, grab the appropriate packages from the distribution's repository, or download it from http://python.org. If you're installing Python using your distribution's packages, you may need a ''python-dev'' or ''python-devel'' package installed, too. To see if this is the case, open up a terminal, start python, and run: .. code-block:: python import distutils If it works, you're good to go. Otherwise, install the `python3-dev` or `python3-devel` package and try again. You may also install "manually" by downloading the source archive from http://python.org, and compiling it. That is outside the scope of this guide, however. Install Limnoria ---------------- In the next section of this guide we will use `pip`_, which is a generic way of installing Python software. There are some :ref:`alternative install methods ` at the bottom of this guide, if you don't want to use `pip`. .. _pip: http://pip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installing.html#install-pip Global installation (with root access) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If you do not have root access, skip this section. If you are logged in as root, you can remove ``sudo`` from the install commands. *In case you want to use the testing branch which might be more up-to date BUT LESS TESTED, replace ``master`` with ``testing`` in the commands.* First we install Limnoria's optional dependencies (you can skip this step, but some features won't be available):: sudo python3 -m pip install -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ProgVal/Limnoria/master/requirements.txt --upgrade And then Limnoria itself:: sudo python3 -m pip install limnoria --upgrade If you have an error saying `No module named pip`, install `pip` using your package manager (the package is usually named `python3-pip`). Local installation (without root access) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If you have followed the previous section, skip this one. Simply add ``--user`` to the end of both commands. First we install requirements (you can skip it, but some features won't be available) and then Limnoria itself.:: python3 -m pip install -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ProgVal/Limnoria/master/requirements.txt --user --upgrade python3 -m pip install limnoria --user --upgrade You might need to add $HOME/.local/bin to your PATH.:: echo 'PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.$(echo $SHELL|cut -d/ -f3)rc source ~/.$(echo $SHELL|cut -d/ -f3)rc If you have an error saying `No module named pip`, install `pip` using this guide: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/ Configuration ************* We are now ready to configure Supybot. Supybot creates quite a few auxiliary files/directories to store its runtime data. It is thus recommended to create an empty directory from which you'll be running supybot, to keep all the data in a nice dedicated location. For example, you may create a 'runbot' directory inside your home directory. Now you can cd to your 'runbot' directory, and from within it run ``supybot-wizard``, which will walk you through a series of questions to generate the bot config file. One thing to make sure to do in the wizard, to make your life easier down the line, is to select **y** for the *Would you like to add an owner user for your bot?* question, and actually create the owner user. Remember that password, so that you can later ''identify'' with the bot on IRC and administer it. Once you generate the config file, which will be named ``yourbotnick.conf`` (where "yourbotnick" is the nick you have chosen for your bot in the wizard), it will be placed in your 'runbot' directory. (As long as you leave the default answer to the ''Where would you like to create these directories?'' question.) Now to start the bot, run, still from within the 'runbot' directory:: supybot yourbotnick.conf And watch the magic! For a tutorial on using and managing the bot from here on, see the `Supybook`_. .. _Supybook: http://supybook.fealdia.org/ .. _alternative-install: Alternative install methods *************************** If you know what you are doing and you don't want to use pip, you can use one of these methods: * Download a .deb or .rpm package at `ProgVal's build repo`_. * Use `git`_ to clone the `Limnoria repository`_ and follow the instructions in `Limnoria's README.md`_. * Click the "Download ZIP" button at the `Limnoria repository`_. Then, extract the zipball to some temporary directory, and ``cd`` into the `Limnoria-master` directory which contains the extracted code. .. _ProgVal's build repo: https://builds.progval.net/limnoria/ .. _Limnoria repository: https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria .. _git: http://git-scm.com/ .. _Limnoria's README.md: https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria/blob/testing/README.md#installing-from-cloned-repo