Linux, Unix installation

There is no *.deb or *.rpm for bots - would be great if you have experience with this and want to give some help.
So a standard python source code install is done.

  1. Install Python

    1. Check if Python is already installed - most of the time python is already installed on *nix. Use python 2.6 or 2.7. (not python >= 3.0).
    2. If not: use package manager or see python web site.

  2. Install dependencies/libraries

  3. Install bots

    1. Download bots installer (e.g. bots-3.1.0.tar.gz)
    2. Unpack (command-line): tar bots-3.1.0.tar.gz
    3. Go to created directory (command-line): cd bots-3.1.0
    4. Install (command-line): python setup.py install
    5. Postinstall: depending on what do want: change rights for directories botssys, usersys and config or place these elsewhere and make symbolic links in the bots installation directories.

Tip: place the directories botssys, usersys and config somewhere else (out of /usr), change the owner/rights and make symbolic links in the bots installation to these directories.

Installation from scratch

(Note that versions might not be correct anymore.)

Installation on amazon EC2, looks like red hat version of linux:

#install django
wget -O django.tar.gz https://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.4.13/tarball/
tar -xf django.tar.gz
cd Django-1.4.13
sudo python setup.py install
cd ..      
#install cherrypy
wget http://download.cherrypy.org/CherryPy/3.2.2/CherryPy-3.2.2.tar.gz
tar -xf CherryPy-3.2.2.tar.gz
cd CherryPy-3.2.2
sudo python setup.py install
cd ..      
#install Genshi
wget http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/genshi/Genshi-0.7.tar.gz
tar -xf Genshi-0.7.tar.gz
cd Genshi-0.7
sudo python setup.py install
cd ..      
#install bots
wget -O bots-3.1.0.tar.gz http://sourceforge.net/projects/bots/files/bots%20open%20source%20edi%20software/3.1.0/bots-3.1.0.tar.gz/download
tar -xf bots-3.1.0.tar.gz
cd bots-3.1.0
sudo python setup.py install
cd .. 
#set rigths for bots directory to non-root:
sudo chown -R myusername /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bots

#start up bots-webserver:
bots-webserver.py

Installation from scratch (bots2.2)

(Note that versions might not be correct anymore.)

Installation on vanilla CentOS6.2 (logged in as root):

#install django
wget http://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.3.1/tarball/
tar -xf Django-1.3.1.tar.gz
cd Django-1.3.1
python setup.py install
cd ..      
#install cherrypy
wget http://download.cherrypy.org/CherryPy/3.2.2/CherryPy-3.2.2.tar.gz
tar -xf CherryPy-3.2.2.tar.gz
cd CherryPy-3.2.2
python setup.py install
cd ..      
#install Genshi
wget http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/genshi/Genshi-0.6.tar.gz
tar -xf Genshi-0.6.tar.gz
cd Genshi-0.6
python setup.py install
cd ..      
#install bots
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/bots/files/bots%20open%20source%20edi%20software/2.2.1/bots-2.2.1.tar.gz/download
tar -xf bots-2.2.1.tar.gz
cd bots-2.2.1
python setup.py install
cd ..

#start up bots-webserver:
bots-webserver.py