Setting Up the development environment

• Create a folder "mangrove" which will have the following:

  $ CLONE mangrove, datawinners, shape files from github (https://github.com/mangroveorg/) into the folder which we have created
    All the three repositories should be at the same directory level in the folder we created.
  

• sudo apt-get install gdal-bin python-psycopg2 python-setuptools

• Setup virtual environment:

  $ (http://blog.devinterface.com/2010/08/how-to-create-multiple-django-environments-using-virtualenv/)
  

• Install pip

• DataBase Requirements:

  $ Intsall Postgres (For Linux - apt-get install postgresql-8.4)
  $ Intsall Postgis  (For Linux - apt-get install postgresql-8.4-postgis)
          NOTE: If unable to install (specially for Ubuntu 11.10 users) you can perform the following:
                  $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
                  $ update repository
                  $ apt-get install postgresql-8.4-postgis
  $ Install CouchDb  (For Linux - apt-get install couchdb)
  

• Install python-dev if already not installed

• See if gcc is installed on the system:

  $ type dpkg -i gcc
  $ if not install gcc with the command sudo apt-get install gcc
  

• See if make is install on the system:

  $ type dpkg -i make
  $ if not, install make with the command sudo apt-get install make
  

• See if g++ is install on the system:

  $ type dpkg -i g++
  $ if not, install g++ with the command sudo apt-get install g++
  

• Install GEOS, PROJ.4 & GDAL:

  $ sudo apt-get install libgeos-c1 libpq-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
  

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/install/#spatial-database

• From your user exceute following commands to create postgis template:

  $ wget https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/_downloads/create_template_postgis-debian.sh
  $ chmod 755 create_template_postgis-debian.sh
  $ run ./create_template_postgis-debian.sh
  

• Create geodjango db from the postgis template:

  $ createdb -T template_postgis geodjango
  

• In Mangrove module:

  $ pip install -r requirements.pip
  $ python setup.py develop
  

• In DataWinners module:

  $ pip install -r requirements.pip
  $ python manage.py syncdb migrate recreatedb
  $ python manage.py loadshapes
  $ django-admin.py compilemessages
  $ python manage.py runserver