install-dreamhost

install-dreamhost version 3.0

Installs updated versions of Python, Mercurial, Git in your home folder.

Useful for environments where you don't have sudo access (such as on a shared server like Dreamhost)

It includes a number of dependencies (berkeley db, bzip, curl, openssl, readline, sqlite, tcl, tk) and installs some additional programs (django, pip, virtualenv, cgit, lesscss, inotify).

It has been tested on Dreamhost on a shared server running Debian.

It should work with other hosts, but it hasn't been tested.

Usage:

./install-dreamhost.sh

Installation Notes

Binaries installed into ~/local/bin. ~/local/bin is added to your bash PATH. (You will need to add this to your PATH if you are not using bash for your shell)

After installing, log out and log back in to setup your environment. (You may also try running

exec bash -login

instead of relogging)

To test if everything worked, make sure that

which python

returns "~/local/bin/python" and verify the python version

python --version

Important Dreamhost setup info

Make sure you source ~/.bashrc in your ~/.bash_profile

source ~/.bashrc

or else .bashrc will not be read when you log in, so your PATH may not be setup correctly for your newly installed tools. Ref: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Environment_Setup

Delete downloaded files

You may delete the downloads directory after installation is complete.

rm -rf downloads

Uninstallation

Run the uninstall script

./uninstall-dreamhost.sh

This will remove the ~/local directory and attempt to revert changes made by this script.

Note you can manually uninstall by deleting the ~/local directory and delete the entries in ~/.bashrc and ~/.hgrc.

Originally created by Tommaso Lanza, under the influence of the guide published by Andrew Watts at: http://andrew.io/weblog/2010/02/installing-python-2-6-virtualenv-and-VirtualEnvWrapper-on-dreamhost/

Also, thanks to Kelvin Wong's python installation guide at http://www.kelvinwong.ca/2010/08/02/python-2-7-on-dreamhost/

Use this script at your own risk.

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###Changelog

April 26 2012 - Kristi Tsukida [email protected]

• v3.0
• Add ruby and rvm

April 24 2012 - Kristi Tsukida [email protected]

• Add verification tests
• Cleanup program output
• Rename script

April 17 2012 - Kristi Tsukida [email protected]

• Update to latest versions
• Silence unnecessary output

Sep 4 2011 - Kristi Tsukida [email protected]

• Add node.js, lesscss and inotify

Aug 1 2011 - Kristi Tsukida [email protected]

• Updated version numbers and urls
• Use pip to install python packages
• Check for directories before creating them
• Pass --quiet flags and redirect to /dev/null to reduce output
• Add log files
• Download into the current directory
• Add uninstall
• Remove lesscss gem (repo old, and lesscss seems to be in js now)
• Don't install into a virtualenv
• /usr/local style install instead of /opt style install (I prefer the simplerPATH manipulations)
• Default the install into ~/local

TODO: add virtualenvwrapper? TODO: auto-detect latest versions of stuff (hard to do?) TODO: add flag/option for /opt style install (Put python, mercurial, and git into their own install directories) TODO: more sophisticated argument parsing