• Introduction
• Installation
• General dependencies
• Get the sources
• Client dependencies
• Server dependencies
• Preparing the system for running the server

Introduction

This page contains some additional installation hints to Installation from Mercurial for a Debian based system (as of 03/2009 on Debian Squeeze/testing)

Installation

General dependencies

Python

$ sudo apt-get install python2.5 python-psycopg2 python-lxml 

Mercurial

$ sudo apt-get install mercurial

if you want to use the forest extension (recommended), proceed as in "Client, Server and Modules Installation in one go (with hgforest)" on Installation from Mercurial

Append/create the hgforest extension to /etc/mercurial/hgrc

# echo -e "[extensions]\nforest=/usr/local/src/hgforest/forest.py" >> /etc/mercurial/hgrc

Get the sources

just proceed as described in Installation from Mercurial, most easy to use is the 'Automatic way' with download script.

Client dependencies

$ sudo apt-get install python-gtk2 python-egenix-mxtools python-egenix-mxdatetime librsvg2-2

optional

• pytz

if you want to handle timezone as user preference

$ sudo apt-get install python-tz

Server dependencies

$ sudo apt-get install python-psycopg2 python-lxml python-egenix-mxtools python-egenix-mxdatetime python-genshi python-setuptools
$ sudo easy_install relatorio

optional

• pywebdav

if you want to use the WebDAV feature (recommended)

$ sudo easy_install PyWebDAV

• pydot

if you want to display workflow graphs

On Etch

$ sudo easy_install pydot

On Lenny

$ sudo apt-get install python-pydot

• pytz

if you want to handle timezone as user preference

$ sudo apt-get install python-tz

• pyOpenSSL

if you want to have SSL connection

$ sudo apt-get install  python-openssl

• OpenOffice headless

if you want to convert odt documents into pdf

$ sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-headless python-uno
$ sudo easy_install openoffice-python

• vatnumber

if you want to validate VAT numbers (module party)

$ sudo apt-get install python-soappy
$ cd path/to/vatnumber
$ sudo python setup.py install

Alternative: If you want to install vatnumber as Debian package (handled with dpkg resp. apt, can simply be removed):

$ sudo apt-get install checkinstall python-soappy
$ sudo checkinstall python setup.py install

• BeautifulSoup

if you want to use module google_translate for help in translating the application

$ sudo apt-get install python-beautifulsoup

• vobject

if you want to use module party_vcarddav

$ sudo apt-get install python-vobject

Preparing the system for running the server

Note: This is NOT the standard Debian way to install a package via the package management with apt. It is shown as an example to do a setup for a development environment respectively an intermediate setup until a deb package will be available

Only recommended to experienced users

Tryton sources are supposed to be downloaded to /usr/local/tryton

directory structure:
  usr --- local --- tryton --- trytond --- bin
                            |           | --- modules    
                            |           | --- etc
                            |           | ...
                            |
                            |--- tryton --- bin
                                         | ...

add the system user to run trytond

# adduser --no-create-home --system --group tryton

set ownership

# chown -R tryton:tryton /usr/local/tryton
Note: if you want to update the installation with mercurial, the owner should be replaced by another user running hg fpull etc.
i.e. chown -R mercurial_user:tryton /usr/local/tryton
in this case you have to give write permissions for the directories to group tryton
# find /usr/local/tryton/ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

copy init scripts (can be downloaded from files section)

# cp trytond /etc/init.d/trytond
# chmod +x /etc/init.d/trytond
# mkdir /usr/local/etc/default/
# cp trytond_default /usr/local/etc/default/trytond

if you want start trytond automatically at system startup

# update-rc.d trytond defaults 21

if you want to store attachments with the server

# mkdir /var/lib/trytond
# chown tryton:tryton /var/lib/trytond

configure and start the server

adapt /usr/local/etc/default/trytond and /usr/local/tryton/trytond/etc/trytond.conf to your needs
and start the server with
# /etc/init.d/trytond start