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Most unices come with Python installed, but you’ll want Python >= 2.4 installed in order to take advantage of the decorator syntax. You’ll be using a lot of decorators when writing TurboGears controller code.
In order to run tgsetup.py you need Python header files installed on your system.
The basic steps for installation are:
sudo python tgsetup.py
These steps tend to work for the majority of people, but if they aren’t working for you, check the installation troubleshooting page and feel free to ask for help on the mailing list. We’re always happy to help people work through their problems and you might have something to share with us.
As you can see from the use of the sudo command, the standard installation procedure described above, requires root privileges to install TurboGears system-wide. You can also install TurboGears below your home directory. This setup is described on the page How to Install TurboGears Without root Privileges.
These instructions work for both CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
TurboGears packages are available via EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux). See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ for more information about the EPEL package repository. If you are not already set up to use the EPEL package repository, do:
# On CentOS/RHEL 5
rpm -ivh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm
# On CentOS/RHEL 4
rpm -ivh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/i386/epel-release-4-6.noarch.rpm
Once configured to use EPEL installing on CentOS/RHEL 5 is easy:
yum install TurboGears
For CentOS/RHEL 4 it’s a bit harder due to TurboGears being in the testing repository:
yum install --enablerepo epel-testing TurboGears
Please note that CentOS/RHEL 4 is in the testing repository because it hasn’t seen much use by the packagers. If you run into bugs please report them in the Red Hat bugzilla instance, product “Fedora EPEL”, component “TurboGears” so they can fix the problems with the packages. Also note that CentOS/RHEL 4 ships with Python version 2.3 so using TurboGears on this platform will require you to use the non-decorator syntax.
Finally, due to EPEL’s update policy, the repository for EPEL 4 & 5 will remain on 1.0.x versions of TurboGears even when newer versions are available.
apt-get update
apt-get install python-turbogears
apt-get install sqlite
apt-get install python-sqlite
This will install TurboGears and all its subpackages including sqlalchemy, sqlobject etc. It will install SQLAlchemy as the default ORM. You should be able to repeat this process for testing and unstable.
If you want to install using tgsetup.py you must first install the python-dev or package matching your Python version.
There’s also an external documentation about installing TurboGears on Debian at Lukasz Szybalski’s web site.
If you are using the latest version of Fedora, you can just enter:
yum install TurboGears
Make sure to get the capitalization of TurboGears correct, otherwise yum will not find the package.
In Fedora 9, python-cherrypy contains CherryPy 3 which is not compatible for TurboGears 1.0.x. Fedora ships a compatible version named python-cherrypy2. In order to run TurboGears 1.0.x on Fedora 9, you have to change your start scripts as described in the TurboGears section of the Fedora 9 Release notes. README.fedora in the python-cherrypy2 package contains more detailed information about the issues that can arise.
Fedora 6 and earlier are past their end-of-life date so they are unsupported and the outdated TurboGears package in the Fedora 6 repository will never be updated. You are better off upgrading to a newer version of Fedora (preferred) or following the generic installation instructions at the top of this page to get a newer version of TurboGears.
If not using the port, the first line of tgsetup.py should be changed from:
#!/bin/env python
to:
#!/usr/bin/env python
And if several versions of Python are installed (e.g. 2.5 in addition to 2.4), give the correct version:
sudo python2.4 tgsetup.py
Installing TurboGears on Gentoo is much easier now, thanks to efforts of Rob “pythonhead” Cakebread, Lukasz “lucass” Strzygowski and community. There is now an ebuild available for ~amd64 and ~86.
If you are running ~amd64 or ~86:
$ emerge turbogears
The ebuild will pull down in all the required dependencies you need to get started with TurboGears. This method will allow portage to manage the packages installed and make updating TurboGears on your Gentoo system quite easy. Please note that if you use this method to install TurboGears and you plan to follow the most excellent 20-Minute Wiki you do not need to execute the steps easy_install docutils and easy_install pysqlite. The ebuild will take care of these for you.
If you mistakenly do both the emerge and easy_install steps, you will simply have an extra copy of tg-admin and sqlobject-admin in /usr/local/bin. You can safely remove these since the ebuild places them in /usr/bin as well.
If you are running amd64 or 86, there are a bunch of masked packages. Unmask all the packages:
$ echo "dev-python/turbogears" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
$ echo "dev-python/setuptools" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
...(keep trying 'emerge -av turbogears' and unmasking packages
until emerge gives you no more warnings...)
$ emerge -av turbogears
It is recommended that you choose either the ebuild method or the setuptools method (which ever you prefer) but do not mix and match them.
To follow the setuptools method, unmask setuptools:
$ echo "dev-python/setuptools" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
$ emerge -av setuptools
then either run tgsetup.py or easy_install TurboGears.
Please note that portage will not manage any of the packages installed this way. Which may bring some conflict if some portage package upgrades a package TG depends on.
There are TurboGears RPM packages available for openSUSE. Up-to-date information about the openSUSE TurboGears packages can be found through the openSUSE Build Service.
For openSUSE 10.3 and up, you can use this 1-click install link. This allows installation directly from the web browser.
The openSUSE TurboGears packages contain a couple of modifications for better integration with openSUSE. In order to support CherryPy 2.x and 3.x on the same system, the CherryPy 2.x module was renamed to cherrypy2. This required changing ‘import cherrypy’ to ‘import cherrypy2 as cherrypy’ throughout the TG code. Also, for older stable distributions that shipped with Python 2.4. (SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, specifically), the runtime dependency checks had to be removed. Basically, pkg_resources assumes that anything without an egg file isn’t installed, even when it is. In an RPM environment the package manager handles dependencies, so it’s not actually necessary for the program perform it’s own checks.
Please note that bugs for any of these packages should be directed to bugzilla.novell.com.
Please see Installation on Ubuntu for an installation guide on the different versions of Ubuntu (and Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu et al.).