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Installing manually on UNIX-based platforms
- Debian or Ubuntu systems
- Fedora 22 (experimental)
- CentOS 7 Core (experimental)
- OpenBSD 5.8 (experimental)
- Fedora/CentOS common steps
- Steps for all systems
If you really want to install everything manually, the below instructions should work.
Install the following non-Python dependencies:
- libffi-dev — needed for some Python extensions
- postgresql 9.1 or later — our database (client, server, headers)
- nodejs 0.10 (and npm)
- memcached (and headers)
- rabbitmq-server
- libldap2-dev
- python-dev
- redis-server — rate limiting
- tsearch-extras — better text search
- libfreetype6-dev — needed before you pip install Pillow to properly generate emoji PNGs
On Debian or Ubuntu systems:
Using the official Ubuntu repositories and tsearch-extras
deb package:
Start by cloning this repository: git clone https://github.com/zulip/zulip.git
sudo apt-get install closure-compiler libfreetype6-dev libffi-dev \
memcached rabbitmq-server libldap2-dev redis-server \
postgresql-server-dev-all libmemcached-dev python-dev \
hunspell-en-us nodejs nodejs-legacy npm git yui-compressor \
puppet gettext postgresql
# Next, install Zulip's tsearch-extras postgresql extension
# If on 14.04 or 16.04, you can use the Zulip PPA for tsearch-extras:
cd zulip
sudo apt-add-repository -yus ppa:tabbott/zulip
# On 14.04
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.3-tsearch-extras
# On 16.04
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.5-tsearch-extras
# Otherwise, you can download a .deb directly
# If on 12.04 or wheezy:
wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/283158365/zuliposs/postgresql-9.1-tsearch-extras_0.1.2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i postgresql-9.1-tsearch-extras_0.1.2_amd64.deb
# If on 14.04:
https://launchpad.net/~tabbott/+archive/ubuntu/zulip/+files/postgresql-9.3-tsearch-extras_0.1.3_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i postgresql-9.3-tsearch-extras_0.1.3_amd64.deb
# If on 15.04 or jessie:
wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/283158365/zuliposs/postgresql-9.4-tsearch-extras_0.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i postgresql-9.4-tsearch-extras_0.1_amd64.deb
# If on 16.04 or stretch
wget https://launchpad.net/~tabbott/+archive/ubuntu/zulip/+files/postgresql-9.5-tsearch-extras_0.2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i postgresql-9.5-tsearch-extras_0.2_amd64.deb
Alternatively, you can always build the package from tsearch-extras git.
Now continue with the All Systems instructions below.
Using the official Zulip PPA (for 14.04 Trusty):
Start by cloning this repository: git clone https://github.com/zulip/zulip.git
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tabbott/zulip
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install closure-compiler libfreetype6-dev libffi-dev \
memcached rabbitmq-server libldap2-dev redis-server \
postgresql-server-dev-all libmemcached-dev python-dev \
hunspell-en-us nodejs nodejs-legacy npm git yui-compressor \
puppet gettext tsearch-extras
Now continue with the All Systems instructions below.
On Fedora 22 (experimental):
These instructions are experimental and may have bugs; patches welcome!
Start by cloning this repository: git clone https://github.com/zulip/zulip.git
sudo dnf install libffi-devel memcached rabbitmq-server \
openldap-devel python-devel redis postgresql-server \
postgresql-devel postgresql libmemcached-devel freetype-devel \
nodejs npm yuicompressor closure-compiler gettext
Now continue with the Common to Fedora/CentOS instructions below.
On CentOS 7 Core (experimental):
These instructions are experimental and may have bugs; patches welcome!
Start by cloning this repository: git clone https://github.com/zulip/zulip.git
# Add user zulip to the system (not necessary if you configured zulip
# as the administrator user during the install process of CentOS 7).
useradd zulip
# Create a password for zulip user
passwd zulip
# Allow zulip to sudo
visudo
# Add this line after line `root ALL=(ALL) ALL`
zulip ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Switch to zulip user
su zulip
# Enable EPEL 7 repo so we can install rabbitmq-server, redis and
# other dependencies
sudo yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
# Install dependencies
sudo yum install libffi-devel memcached rabbitmq-server openldap-devel \
python-devel redis postgresql-server postgresql-devel postgresql \
libmemcached-devel wget python-pip openssl-devel freetype-devel \
libjpeg-turbo-devel zlib-devel nodejs yuicompressor \
closure-compiler gettext
# We need these packages to compile tsearch-extras
sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
# clone Zulip's git repo and cd into it
cd && git clone https://github.com/zulip/zulip && cd zulip/
## NEEDS TESTING: The next few DB setup items may not be required at all.
# Initialize the postgres db
sudo postgresql-setup initdb
# Edit the postgres settings:
sudo vi /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
# Change these lines:
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 ident
host all all ::1/128 ident
# to this:
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
host all all ::1/128 md5
Now continue with the Common to Fedora/CentOS instructions below.
On OpenBSD 5.8 (experimental):
These instructions are experimental and may have bugs; patches welcome!
Start by cloning this repository: git clone https://github.com/zulip/zulip.git
doas pkg_add sudo bash gcc postgresql-server redis rabbitmq \
memcached node libmemcached py-Pillow py-cryptography py-cffi
# Get tsearch_extras and build it (using a modified version which
# aliases int4 on OpenBSD):
git clone https://github.com/blablacio/tsearch_extras
cd tsearch_extras
gmake && sudo gmake install
# Point environment to custom include locations and use newer GCC
# (needed for Node modules):
export CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/sasl"
export CXX=eg++
# Create tsearch_data directory:
sudo mkdir /usr/local/share/postgresql/tsearch_data
# Hack around missing dictionary files -- need to fix this to get the
# proper dictionaries from what in debian is the hunspell-en-us
# package.
sudo touch /usr/local/share/postgresql/tsearch_data/english.stop
sudo touch /usr/local/share/postgresql/tsearch_data/en_us.dict
sudo touch /usr/local/share/postgresql/tsearch_data/en_us.affix
Finally continue with the All Systems instructions below.
Common to Fedora/CentOS instructions
Start by cloning this repository: git clone https://github.com/zulip/zulip.git
# Build and install postgres tsearch-extras module
wget https://launchpad.net/~tabbott/+archive/ubuntu/zulip/+files/tsearch-extras_0.1.3.tar.gz
tar xvzf tsearch-extras_0.1.3.tar.gz
cd ts2
make
sudo make install
# Hack around missing dictionary files -- need to fix this to get the
# proper dictionaries from what in debian is the hunspell-en-us
# package.
sudo touch /usr/share/pgsql/tsearch_data/english.stop
sudo touch /usr/share/pgsql/tsearch_data/en_us.dict
sudo touch /usr/share/pgsql/tsearch_data/en_us.affix
# Edit the postgres settings:
sudo vi /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
# Add this line before the first uncommented line to enable password
# auth:
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
# Start the services
sudo systemctl start redis memcached rabbitmq-server postgresql
# Enable automatic service startup after the system startup
sudo systemctl enable redis rabbitmq-server memcached postgresql
Finally continue with the All Systems instructions below.
All Systems:
Make sure you have followed the steps specific for your platform:
- Debian or Ubuntu systems
- Fedora 22 (experimental)
- CentOS 7 Core (experimental)
- OpenBSD 5.8 (experimental)
- Fedora/CentOS
For managing Zulip's python dependencies, we recommend using virtualenvs.
You must create two virtualenvs. One for Python 2 and one for Python 3. You must also install appropriate python packages in them.
You should either install the virtualenvs in /srv
, or put symlinks to
them in /srv
. If you don't do that, some scripts might not work correctly.
You can run tools/setup/setup_venvs.py
to do this. This script will create two
virtualenvs - /srv/zulip-venv and /srv/zulip-py3-venv.
If you want to do it manually, here are the steps:
virtualenv /srv/zulip-venv -p python2 # Create a python2 virtualenv
source /srv/zulip-venv/bin/activate # Activate python2 virtualenv
pip install --upgrade pip # upgrade pip itself because older versions have known issues
pip install --no-deps -r requirements/py2_dev.txt # install python packages required for development
virtualenv /srv/zulip-py3-venv -p python3 # Create a python3 virtualenv
source /srv/zulip-py3-venv/bin/activate # Activate python3 virtualenv
pip install --upgrade pip # upgrade pip itself because older versions have known issues
pip install --no-deps -r requirements/py3_dev.txt # install python packages required for development
Now run these commands:
./tools/setup/install-phantomjs
./tools/install-mypy
./tools/setup/download-zxcvbn
./tools/setup/emoji_dump/build_emoji
./scripts/setup/generate_secrets.py -d
if [ $(uname) = "OpenBSD" ]; then sudo cp ./puppet/zulip/files/postgresql/zulip_english.stop /var/postgresql/tsearch_data/; else sudo cp ./puppet/zulip/files/postgresql/zulip_english.stop /usr/share/postgresql/9.*/tsearch_data/; fi
./scripts/setup/configure-rabbitmq
./tools/setup/postgres-init-dev-db
./tools/do-destroy-rebuild-database
./tools/setup/postgres-init-test-db
./tools/do-destroy-rebuild-test-database
./manage.py compilemessages
npm install
If npm install
fails, the issue may be that you need a newer version
of npm
. You can use npm install -g npm
to update your version of
npm
and try again.
To start the development server:
./tools/run-dev.py
… and visit http://localhost:9991/.
Proxy setup for by-hand installation
If you are building the development environment on a network where a proxy is required to access the Internet, you will need to set the proxy in the environment as follows:
- On Ubuntu, set the proxy environment variables using:
export https_proxy=http://proxy_host:port
export http_proxy=http://proxy_host:port
- And set the npm proxy and https-proxy using:
npm config set proxy http://proxy_host:port
npm config set https-proxy http://proxy_host:port