Recent changes to How to Install

How to Install modified by TacoScott

TacoScott — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 03:54:59 -0000

--- v12
+++ v13
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@

 All the other settings can be left defaults. Click **OK**. You'll see TacoNET files being downloaded. Once this is done, click **OK**. Now, open the folder you created, you should see some files and folders. Double click on **taconet.py**. A console window should open up, and some debug text will occasionally output in it.  Feel free to minimize this window, we how no mechanism to run TacoNET as a service or daemon in windows yet, we plan to for beta. You should regularly shut down TacoNET and right click on this folder and select **SVN Update** to get the newest version of the source code. Once we are in beta, installation packages will be provided.

-Point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page. If you don't see the section [Tweaking The TacoNET Config File] below for some helpful info.
+Point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page. If you don't, try looking at the section [Tweaking The TacoNET Config File] for helpful info.

 ## Linux ##
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@

 Running it in the foreground will generate a bunch of debug information, this will be reduced, removed or obscured in future releases.

-Point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page. If you don't see the section [Tweaking The TacoNET Config File].
+Point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page. If you don't, try looking at the section [Tweaking The TacoNET Config File] for helpful info.

 You should regularly shut down TacoNET and "svn up" in this folder to get the newest version of the source code. Once we are in beta, tarballs will be provided.

How to Install modified by TacoScott

TacoScott — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 03:51:53 -0000

--- v11
+++ v12
@@ -87,3 +87,6 @@
 Point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page. If you don't see the section [Tweaking The TacoNET Config File].

 You should regularly shut down TacoNET and "svn up" in this folder to get the newest version of the source code. Once we are in beta, tarballs will be provided.
+
+## MacOS ##
+I have no idea. Similar to linux instructions somewhat I suppose.

How to Install modified by TacoScott

TacoScott — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:56:45 -0000

--- v10
+++ v11
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/taconet/code/trunk
 ~~~~~~

-All the other settings can be left defaults. Click **OK**. You'll see TacoNET files being downloaded. Once this is done, click **OK**. Now, open the folder you created, you should see some files and folders. Double click on **taconet.py**. A console window should open up, and some debug text will occasionally output in it.  Feel free to minimize this window, we how no mechanism to run TacoNET as a service or daemon in windows yet, we plan to for beta.
+All the other settings can be left defaults. Click **OK**. You'll see TacoNET files being downloaded. Once this is done, click **OK**. Now, open the folder you created, you should see some files and folders. Double click on **taconet.py**. A console window should open up, and some debug text will occasionally output in it.  Feel free to minimize this window, we how no mechanism to run TacoNET as a service or daemon in windows yet, we plan to for beta. You should regularly shut down TacoNET and right click on this folder and select **SVN Update** to get the newest version of the source code. Once we are in beta, installation packages will be provided.

 Point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page. If you don't see the section [Tweaking The TacoNET Config File] below for some helpful info.

@@ -84,4 +84,6 @@

 Running it in the foreground will generate a bunch of debug information, this will be reduced, removed or obscured in future releases.

-Point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page. If you don't see the section [Tweaking The TacoNET Config File] below for some helpful info.
+Point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page. If you don't see the section [Tweaking The TacoNET Config File].
+
+You should regularly shut down TacoNET and "svn up" in this folder to get the newest version of the source code. Once we are in beta, tarballs will be provided.

How to Install modified by TacoScott

TacoScott — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:11:56 -0000

--- v9
+++ v10
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@

 All the other settings can be left defaults. Click **OK**. You'll see TacoNET files being downloaded. Once this is done, click **OK**. Now, open the folder you created, you should see some files and folders. Double click on **taconet.py**. A console window should open up, and some debug text will occasionally output in it.  Feel free to minimize this window, we how no mechanism to run TacoNET as a service or daemon in windows yet, we plan to for beta.

-Point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page. If you don't see the section **Tweaking TacoNET Config** below for some helpful info.
+Point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page. If you don't see the section [Tweaking The TacoNET Config File] below for some helpful info.

 ## Linux ##

How to Install modified by TacoScott

TacoScott — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:10:49 -0000

--- v8
+++ v9
@@ -84,42 +84,4 @@

 Running it in the foreground will generate a bunch of debug information, this will be reduced, removed or obscured in future releases.

-Point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page. If you don't see the section **Tweaking TacoNET Config** below for some helpful info.
-
-----------------
-
-### Tweaking TacoNET Config ###
-
-TacoNET By default will bind the application port to all interfaces, and the web interface to localhost.
-
-If you are running TacoNET on **Computer A** and accessing the web interface from **Computer A**, just point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page.
-
-If you are running TacoNET on **Computer A** and accessing the web interface from **Computer B**, you'll have to follow a little different process. First you'll have to kill TacoNET if it's running. This can get done from the machine running TacoNET by invoking the following command:
-
-~~~~~~~
-curl http://localhost:9002/shutitdown
-~~~~~~~
-
-or 
-
-~~~~~~~
-wget http://localhost:9002/shutitdown
-~~~~~~~
-
-TacoNET is now shut down. Now, you'll need to edit the settings.json file to tell the TacoNET web interface to bind to either all interfaces, or a specific one of your choosing. Fire up the editor of you choice and edit "settings.json" in your TacoNET directory.
-
-You'll see a simple config file, near the bottom you'll see the following lines:
-
-~~~~~~~
-"Web IP": "127.0.0.1",
-"Web Port": "9002"
-~~~~~~~
-
-Change the 127.0.0.1 to another IP, or to 0.0.0.0 to bind to all interfaces.
-Now when you start up TacoNET, you can access the web interface via
-
-http://ip-of-computer-a:9002/
-
-As you can imagine, we plan to make this process simpler as we move to beta.
-
-Now that TacoNET is up and running, you can look into [Configuring TacoNET] to actually make it do something.
+Point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page. If you don't see the section [Tweaking The TacoNET Config File] below for some helpful info.

How to Install modified by TacoScott

TacoScott — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:09:56 -0000

--- v7
+++ v8
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-How to get TacoNET up and running
-===========
+# How to get TacoNET up and running #
 Here are some quick directions on how to get TacoNET up and running. See [Configuring TacoNET] to actually make it do something.

-Windows
--------
+## Windows ##
 Once we're out of alpha, we'll make a windows installer but until then, you'll need to download and install:

 * [Python](http://www.python.org/download/)
@@ -25,8 +23,7 @@
 Point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page. If you don't see the section **Tweaking TacoNET Config** below for some helpful info.

-Linux
------
+## Linux ##

 Linux user eh? Good call. TacoNET is much easier to get installed on linux.

@@ -89,6 +86,7 @@

 Point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page. If you don't see the section **Tweaking TacoNET Config** below for some helpful info.

+----------------

 ### Tweaking TacoNET Config ###

How to Install modified by TacoScott

TacoScott — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:08:07 -0000

--- v6
+++ v7
@@ -13,6 +13,16 @@
 * Recommended: [TortoiseSVN](http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html) -- As we are currently in alpha, we are making constant updates. TortoiseSVN will make it easy to acquire the newest version of the source code. We don't plan to make install packages or tarballs until beta.

 Install Python and Pycrpto, and optionally TortoiseSVN. They are simple installs. Just download, run and click Next for awhile and you're done.
+
+Now that you have Python, Pycrypto and TortoiseSVN installed, you'll want to create a directory to house the TacoNET source code. Once you have done that, right click on the folder and select **SVN Checkout...** from the pop up menu. This will present you with an SVN Checkout window. The URL of repository should be 
+
+~~~~~~
+svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/taconet/code/trunk
+~~~~~~
+
+All the other settings can be left defaults. Click **OK**. You'll see TacoNET files being downloaded. Once this is done, click **OK**. Now, open the folder you created, you should see some files and folders. Double click on **taconet.py**. A console window should open up, and some debug text will occasionally output in it.  Feel free to minimize this window, we how no mechanism to run TacoNET as a service or daemon in windows yet, we plan to for beta.
+
+Point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page. If you don't see the section **Tweaking TacoNET Config** below for some helpful info.

 Linux
@@ -77,6 +87,11 @@

 Running it in the foreground will generate a bunch of debug information, this will be reduced, removed or obscured in future releases.

+Point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page. If you don't see the section **Tweaking TacoNET Config** below for some helpful info.
+
+
+### Tweaking TacoNET Config ###
+
 TacoNET By default will bind the application port to all interfaces, and the web interface to localhost.

 If you are running TacoNET on **Computer A** and accessing the web interface from **Computer A**, just point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page.

How to Install modified by TacoScott

TacoScott — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:59:08 -0000

--- v5
+++ v6
@@ -20,7 +20,24 @@

 Linux user eh? Good call. TacoNET is much easier to get installed on linux.

-Chances are you already have python, Python 2.6.6 or newer is required. Use you're package manager of choice to get it installed if it isn't already. You'll also need the python-crypto and subversion packages. You will want the screen package as well, as TacoNET doesn't run as a daemon yet.
+Chances are you already have python, Python 2.6.6 or newer is required. Use your package manager of choice to get Python 2.6.6 or newer installed if it isn't already. To check what python version you have, you can type:
+
+~~~~~~
+$ python --version
+Python 2.6.6
+~~~~~~
+
+If those numbers are less than 2.6.6, you'll need to get a newer version of python installed. Sometimes it could also just be your os defaulting to a older version.  You can do a:
+
+~~~~~~~
+$ find /usr/bin -type f -iname "python*"
+/usr/bin/python2.6
+/usr/bin/python2.6-config
+~~~~~~~
+
+If you see a newer version in the list, you can use that full python in place of just typing "python".
+
+You'll also need the python-crypto and subversion packages. You will want the screen package as well, as TacoNET doesn't run as a daemon yet.

 For example (on debian variants):

@@ -52,13 +69,19 @@
 tacoscott@debian:~/TacoNET$ screen -dmS TacoNET "python taconet.py"
 ~~~~~~~~~

-This will launch TacoNET in a screen session, allowing the process to persist after logging out. You could also choose to run it in the foreground if you wish.
+This will launch TacoNET in a screen session, allowing the process to persist after logging out. You could also choose to run it in the foreground if you wish. To run TacoNET in the foreground, try:

-TacoNET By default will will bind the application port to all interfaces, and the web interface to localhost.
+~~~~~~~~~
+$ python taconet.py
+~~~~~~~~~

-If you are running TacoNET on computer A and accessing the web interface from computer A, just point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page.
+Running it in the foreground will generate a bunch of debug information, this will be reduced, removed or obscured in future releases.

-If you are running TacoNET on computer A and accessing the web interface from computer B, you'll have to follow a little different process. First you'll have to kill TacoNET if it's running. This can get done from the machine running TacoNET by invoking the following command:
+TacoNET By default will bind the application port to all interfaces, and the web interface to localhost.
+
+If you are running TacoNET on **Computer A** and accessing the web interface from **Computer A**, just point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page.
+
+If you are running TacoNET on **Computer A** and accessing the web interface from **Computer B**, you'll have to follow a little different process. First you'll have to kill TacoNET if it's running. This can get done from the machine running TacoNET by invoking the following command:

 ~~~~~~~
 curl http://localhost:9002/shutitdown
@@ -82,6 +105,8 @@
 Change the 127.0.0.1 to another IP, or to 0.0.0.0 to bind to all interfaces.
 Now when you start up TacoNET, you can access the web interface via

-http://ip-of-machine-b:9002/
+http://ip-of-computer-a:9002/
+
+As you can imagine, we plan to make this process simpler as we move to beta.

 Now that TacoNET is up and running, you can look into [Configuring TacoNET] to actually make it do something.

How to Install modified by TacoScott

TacoScott — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:51:49 -0000

--- v4
+++ v5
@@ -56,8 +56,32 @@

 TacoNET By default will will bind the application port to all interfaces, and the web interface to localhost.

-
 If you are running TacoNET on computer A and accessing the web interface from computer A, just point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page.

+If you are running TacoNET on computer A and accessing the web interface from computer B, you'll have to follow a little different process. First you'll have to kill TacoNET if it's running. This can get done from the machine running TacoNET by invoking the following command:
+
+~~~~~~~
+curl http://localhost:9002/shutitdown
+~~~~~~~
+
+or 
+
+~~~~~~~
+wget http://localhost:9002/shutitdown
+~~~~~~~
+
+TacoNET is now shut down. Now, you'll need to edit the settings.json file to tell the TacoNET web interface to bind to either all interfaces, or a specific one of your choosing. Fire up the editor of you choice and edit "settings.json" in your TacoNET directory.
+
+You'll see a simple config file, near the bottom you'll see the following lines:
+
+~~~~~~~
+"Web IP": "127.0.0.1",
+"Web Port": "9002"
+~~~~~~~
+
+Change the 127.0.0.1 to another IP, or to 0.0.0.0 to bind to all interfaces.
+Now when you start up TacoNET, you can access the web interface via
+
+http://ip-of-machine-b:9002/
+
 Now that TacoNET is up and running, you can look into [Configuring TacoNET] to actually make it do something.
-

How to Install modified by TacoScott

TacoScott — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:46:56 -0000

--- v3
+++ v4
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 TacoNET By default will will bind the application port to all interfaces, and the web interface to localhost.

-If you are running TacoNET on computer A and accessing the web interface from computer A, just point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/ and you should see something like this:
+If you are running TacoNET on computer A and accessing the web interface from computer A, just point your web browser to http://localhost:9002/.  You should see the TacoNET Home page.

+Now that TacoNET is up and running, you can look into [Configuring TacoNET] to actually make it do something.

-