Ckan Buildout
A Buildout configuration for the ckan platform. Works best and is tested for Ubuntu 12.04. For other distros, you will most likely need to change the configuration a bit (specifically for system dependency part).
Installation
Install virtualenv and git.
$ sudo apt-get install git python-virtualenv
Clone the repository.
$ git clone https://github.com/jsonmurphy/ckan-buildout.git
Create and initilize the virtual enviroment
$ cd ckan-buildout
$ virtualenv --no-site-packages .
$ source bin/activate
Run the buildout
(ckan-buildout) $ python bootstrap.py
(ckan-buildout) $ buildout
Note: a couple of parts are using sudo commands so be prepared to enter your password, provided you actually have sudo access.
This should install ckan and all its dependecies then you can run the server by doing (still within ckan-buildout) :
(ckan-buildout) $ cd src/ckan
(ckan-buildout) $ paster serve development.ini
Possible Error
If you get the message "Could not start Jetty servlet engine because no Java Development Kit (JDK) was found" during buildout. then you will have to edit the JAVA_HOME setting in /etc/default/jetty to point to your machine’s JDK install location. For example:
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/
or:
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-i386/
then run buildout again.