[tahoe-dev] zfec 1.4.24 standalone install quickstart?

[Leif Ryge]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 03:29:05AM +0000, Garonda Rodian wrote:
> I'm certain I'm making beginner mistakes, but in my defense, I think I'm simply trying to follow the README.rst after downloading from
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zfec
> 
> Is there some pyutil install I'm supposed to do first?
> [...]

Yes, you need pyutil which you can find at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyutil
or you can have pip install it for you BUT be careful of older versions of pip
which have a bad habit of downloading code over HTTP or unverified HTTPS.

I just tested and confirmed that zfec installs correctly (and "safely", relying
on HTTPS and PyPI) into a new virtualenv (root not required) using these steps:

wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.10.1.tar.gz
tar xf virtualenv-1.10.1.tar.gz
./virtualenv-1.10.1/virtualenv.py ./zfec_venv
source ./zfec_venv/bin/activate
pip install --no-allow-insecure zfec

happy hacking,
~leif
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