[ckan-dev] Install CKAN on Ubuntu 13.04

Mon Jul 8 22:50:17 UTC 2013

Has anyone installed CKAN on Ubuntu 13.04? If so, do you have installation notes?

As a newbie I have been trying very hard the last couple of days, but I keep running into problems. Below is what I tried and some of the issues I ran into. Thanks for any help.

sudo su
apt-get install -y nginx apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi libpq5
wget http://packaging.ckan.org/python-ckan-2.0_amd64.deb
dpkg -i python-ckan-2.0_amd64.deb
apt-get install -y postgresql solr-jetty openjdk-6-jdk
gedit /etc/default/jetty
   NO_START=0
   JETTY_HOST=127.0.0.1
   JETTY_PORT=8983
mv /etc/solr/conf/schema.xml   /etc/solr/conf/schema.xml.bak
ln -s /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/config/solr/schema-2.0.xml   /etc/solr/conf/schema.xml
service jetty start
sudo -u postgres createuser -S -D -R -P ckan_default [password]
sudo -u postgres createdb -O ckan_default ckan_default -E utf-8

# at this point I miss production.ini, so I do the following:

apt-get install python-pastescript
easy_install -U Pylons
cd /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan
paster make-config ckan /etc/ckan/default/production.ini
gedit /etc/ckan/default/production.ini
   sqlalchemy.url = postgresql://ckan_default:[password]@localhost/ckan_default
   solr_url= http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr

# now things go awry, I try:

sudo ckan db init

# and get the message

from _sre import MAXREPEAT
ImportError: cannot import name MAXREPEAT
# I have found a way to work around this:

gedit /usr/lib/ckan/default/lib/python2.7/sre_constants.py
   # from _sre import MAXREPEAT
   MAXREPEAT = 65535
gedit /usr/lib/ckan/default/lib/python2.7/sre_parse.py
   # from _sre import MAXREPEAT
   MAXREPEAT = 65535
gedit /usr/lib/ckan/default/lib/python2.7/sre_compile.py
   # from _sre import MAXREPEAT
   MAXREPEAT = 65535

# at this point I again try

sudo ckan db init

# and I now get the message:

ImportError: No module named _csv

# this is where I currently give up.

Does anybody know what I should do? Thank you.

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