Installation

We assume that you have prepared your system (see Section _my-reference-label) on which you like to install the cloudmesh client. We recommend that you use python 2.7.10, pip 7.1.2 and use virtualenv. Furthermore we recommend that on Linux systems you have readline installed as it is a convenient tool for command line manipulation. In the next sections we will walk you through a setup that has been proven to work for developers and users and is very easy to replicate.

Install Cloudmesh Client via pip

Warning

at this time we recommend you use the source install and not

the pip install

Users can install the cloudmesh client via pip

cd ~
pip install cloudmesh_client

Please note that the directory in which you call pip install does not have a directory called cloudmesh_client THis may prevent pip from working properly.

Cloudmesh Installation from Source

Developers that wish to contribute to the source can obtain the code from github. We assume that we conduct a source code install into the directory:

~/github/cloudmesh

If you like to use a different directory, that is also possible, but the instructions we provide here assumes are targeted towards this base directory.

Please use the following commands

mkdir -p github/cloudmesh
cd github/cloudmesh
git clone https://github.com/cloudmesh/client.git
cd client
python setup.py install

Updating an existing source distribution

During the development phase of cloudmesh you may need to update the code from source, as cloudmesh client uses three different repositories please do not forget to update them accordingly

export CLOUDMESH_HOME=$HOME/github/cloudmesh
cd $CLOUDMESH_HOME/client
git pull
python setup.py install