Installing Python Behave On Ubuntu 14.04.1LTS
February 16, 2015 at 12:26 PM | categories: python, bdd, behave, packaging, ubuntu | View CommentsBrief notes on how I installed Behave - a behaviour driven development package on Ubuntu 14.04.1LTS.
First off, why? Well, the common answer for installing things would be "use pip" or "use virtualenv". I tend to prefer to use debian packages when installing things under Ubuntu - primarily because then I only have one packaging system to worry about. This works fine for lots of things since lots of things have sufficiently recent packages. In the case of something like Behave though, this doesn't have any package, so we need to build one for that, and its dependencies.
Partly as a note to self, and for anyone else who may be interested, this is how I did it. First of all we need the sources of behave and its dependencies:
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/stoneleaf/enum34 git clone git@github.com:r1chardj0n3s/parse git clone git@github.com:jenisys/parse_type.git git clone git@github.com:behave/behave
To package these up we need some other things too:
sudo apt-get install python-stdeb sudo apt-get install devscripts
One of the dependencies is available as a package:
sudo apt-get install python-hamcrest
The just package up each dependency and install.
First of enum34:
cd enum34/ python setup.py sdist cd dist/ py2dsc enum34-1.0.4.tar.gz cd deb_dist/ cd enum34-1.0.4 debuild -uc -us cd .. sudo dpkg -i python-enum34_1.0.4-1_all.deb cd ../.. rm -rf dist cd ..
Then parse:
cd parse python setup.py sdist cd dist/ py2dsc parse-1.6.5.tar.gz cd deb_dist/ cd parse-1.6.5 debuild -uc -us cd .. sudo dpkg -i python-parse_1.6.5-1_all.deb cd ../.. rm -rf dist cd ..
Then parse_type:
cd parse_type/ python setup.py sdist cd dist/ py2dsc parse_type-0.3.5dev.tar.gz cd deb_dist/ cd parse-type-0.3.5dev debuild -uc -us cd .. sudo dpkg -i python-parse-type_0.3.5dev-1_all.deb cd ../.. rm -rf dist/ cd ..
And finally behave itself:
cd behave/ python setup.py sdist cd dist/ py2dsc behave-1.2.6.dev0.tar.gz cd deb_dist/ cd behave-1.2.6~dev0 debuild -uc -us cd .. sudo dpkg -i python-behave_1.2.6~dev0-1_all.deb cd ../.. rm -rf dist/ cd ..