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Installation

Installing system dependencies

On Unix, Python version 2.5 or 2.6 and the Python development files must be installed.

Note

On Debian-based systems one can use apt-get install python2.5 python2.5-dev to install Python 2.5 and its development files. Geos and Postgres/Postgis are also required: sudo apt-get install libgeos-3.0.0 postgresql postgis postgresql-8.3-postgis

On Windows Python 2.5, and the Python for Windows extensions must be installed.

For Windows, we assume in the rest of this page that Python 2.5 is installed in C:\Python25.

Installing MapFish

To install MapFish, download the installation script, and execute it from a terminal.

On a Unix system:

$ python go-mapfish-framework-2.1.py --no-site-packages env

On a Windows system:

C:\> C:\Python25\python.exe go-mapfish-framework-2.1.py --no-site-packages env

This command creates a virtual Python environment named env and installs MapFish and its dependencies into it.

Note

The so-called go script actually installs two Python eggs for MapFish:

  • the egg mapfish for the server framework
  • the egg mapfish.plugin.client for the Javascript toolbox

Now activate the virtual environment.

On a Unix system:

$ source env/bin/activate

On a Windows system:

C:\> env\Scripts\activate.bat

You command prompt should now look like this:

(env) $

To check that MapFish is correctly installed, enter:

(env) $ paster create --list-templates

and check that the output is:

Available templates:
basic_package:   A basic setuptools-enabled package
mapfish:         MapFish application template
mapfish_client:  MapFish client plugin template
paste_deploy:    A web application deployed through paste.deploy
pylons:          Pylons application template
pylons_minimal:  Pylons minimal application template

MapFish is installed, congratulations!