To run the PyPI software, you need Python 2.5+, PostgreSQL, and all these packages located at PyPI:
- zope.interface
- zope.pagetemplate
- zope.tal
- zope.tales
- zope.i18nmessageid
- psycopg2 (for testing, sqlite3 might be sufficient)
- docutils
- M2Crypto
- distutils2
- python-openid
- raven
Make sure you read http://wiki.python.org/moin/CheeseShopDev#DevelopmentEnvironmentHints and you have a working PostgreSQL DB.
Make sure your config.ini is up-to-date, initially copying from config.ini.template. Change CONFIG_FILE at the begining of pypi.wsgi, so it looks like this::
CONFIG_FILE = 'config.ini'
Then, you can create a development environment like this, if you have virtualenv installed::
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages --distribute .
$ bin/easy_install zope.interface zope.pagetemplate
$ bin/easy_install zope.tal zope.tales zope.i18nmessageid psycopg2
$ bin/easy_install docutils M2Crypto python-openid raven
Then you can launch the server using the pypi.wsgi script::
$ bin/python pypi.wsgi
Serving on port 8000...
PyPI will be available in your browser at http://localhost:8000
To fill a database, run pkgbase_schema.sql on an empty Postgres database. Then run tools/demodata to populate the database with dummy data.
For testing purposes, run tools/mksqlite to create packages.db. Set [database]driver to sqlite3, and [database]name to packages.db, then run tools/demodata to populate the database.