Installation on Ubuntu 14.04

Prepare the system

1. Install system-wide pip Currently the ensurepip is broken in Python 3.4 / Ubuntu 14.04, therefore we need to install system-wide pip

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

2. Install postgresql

sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-client pgadmin3

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3. Configure the server and set password

sudo -u postgres psql postgres
\password postgres

4. Install components to build psycopg2

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev python3-dev

Setup the virutal environment

1. Create the virtual environment Currently the ensurepip is broken in Python 3.4 / Ubuntu 14.04, therefore --without-pip is needed.

pyvenv-3.4 env --without-pip --system-site-packages

2. Activate the virtual environment

source env/bin/activate

3. Install pyramid, sqlachemy, psycopg2 and other dependencies:

python3 -m pip install pyramid waitress sqlalchemy zope.sqlalchemy psycopg2