Preparing Ubuntu for stackd.io installation

The steps below were written using Ubuntu 13.10 from a Ubuntu-provided AMI on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The exact AMI we used is ami-2f252646, and you should be able to easily launch an EC2 instance using this AMI from the AWS EC2 Console.

Prerequisites

All of these steps require root or sudo access. Before installing anything
with apt-get you should run apt-get update first.

MySQL

Note

Please skip this section if you are using a different database or already have a supported database server running elsewhere.

Install MySQL server:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

# When prompted, provide a password for the root user to access the MySQL server.

Below we’ll create a stackdio database and grant permissions to the stackdio user for that database.

WARNING: we’re not focusing on security here, so the default MySQL setup definitely needs to be tweaked, passwords changed, etc., but for a quick-start guide this is out of scope. Please, don’t run this as-is in production :)
echo "create database stackdio; \
grant all on stackdio.* to stackdio@'localhost' identified by 'password';" | \
mysql -hlocalhost -uroot -ppassword

virtualenvwrapper

# install the package
sudo apt-get install virtualenvwrapper

# post-install step for virtualenvwrapper shortcuts
source /etc/bash_completion.d/virtualenvwrapper

Core requirements

  • gcc and other development tools
  • git
  • mysql-devel
  • swig
  • python-devel
  • rabbitmq-server

To quickly get up and running, you can run the following to install the required packages.

# Install requirements needed to install stackd.io
sudo apt-get install python-dev libssl-dev libncurses5-dev libyaml-dev swig nodejs npm \
    libmysqlclient-dev rabbitmq-server git nginx libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev

# Link nodejs over to node - bower will complain otherwise
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

Next Steps

You’re now finished with the Ubuntu-specific requirements for stackd.io. You can head back over to the Manual Install and continue the installation of stackd.io.