Setting up a Pootle development instance
Pootle's installation instructions are on the
Pootle wiki
. Make sure to follow the (django-based) installation instructions, not the ones referring to jToolkit.
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have Python 2.4-2.6 installed (Mozilla is currently running 2.4 in production)
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grab an svn checkout of the Pootle trunk:
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if you do not want to install Pootle's requirements into your global Python environment, create a clean, virtual Python environment for the application, using
virtualenv
. Note that this is not required, but may be helpful if you develop on multiple python-based projects
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virtualenv --no-site-packages --python=path/to/python2.[4-6] pootle-env
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cd pootle-env/
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source bin/activate
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Install the
prerequisites
. Some notes:
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PyLucene and Xapian are not vital
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The translate toolkit is part of the Pootle project too, and while it comes with an svn checkout of the trunk you still need to install it:
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cd pootle
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python setup.py install
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Initialize the database by running the
./PootleServer
script once.
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Note for OS X users:
At this point you may get an error that lxml is not installed. Running
easy_install lxml
didn't work for me, but it might work for you. Instead what I had to do was download the
lxml.tqz
and then:
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tar -xvzf lxml-2.2.1.tgz
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cd lxml-2.2.1
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python setup.py build --static-deps
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python setup.py install
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The issue apparently is that lxml requires newer versions of the libxml and libxslt libraries than the system offers. Building from source with the --static-deps flag will force lxml to download the versions it needs and link against those. More details are available on the
lxml website
.
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You can run the pootle server later by using
./manage.py runserver PORTNUMBER
(if you omit PORTNUMBER, it'll default to 8000)
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