issue tracker is for tracking bugs, not for support, discussion, or ideas --

please use the `mailing list`_ or :ref:`IRC <readme>` to reach the community.

We use Weblate_ to translate the user interface messages into languages other

than English. Join our project on `Hosted Weblate`_ to help us.

To register, you can use your Bitbucket or GitHub account. See :ref:`translations`

for more details.

Getting started

---------------

        hg clone https://kallithea-scm.org/repos/kallithea

        cd kallithea

        python3 -m venv ../kallithea-venv

        source ../kallithea-venv/bin/activate

        pip install --upgrade pip setuptools

        pip install --upgrade -e . -r dev_requirements.txt python-ldap python-pam

        kallithea-cli config-create my.ini

        kallithea-cli db-create -c my.ini --user=user --email=user@example.com --password=password --repos=/tmp

        kallithea-cli front-end-build

        gearbox serve -c my.ini --reload &

        firefox http://127.0.0.1:5000/

For Fedora and RHEL-derivatives, the following command will ensure that a

reasonable set of dependencies is installed::

    sudo yum install gcc git libffi-devel python3-devel

.. _installation-source:

Installation from repository source

-----------------------------------

To install Kallithea in a virtualenv using the stable branch of the development

        hg clone https://kallithea-scm.org/repos/kallithea -u stable

        cd kallithea

        python3 -m venv ../kallithea-venv

        . ../kallithea-venv/bin/activate

        pip install --upgrade pip setuptools

        pip install --upgrade -e .

        python3 setup.py compile_catalog   # for translation of the UI

You can now proceed to :ref:`setup`.

.. _installation-virtualenv:

It is highly recommended to use a separate virtualenv for installing Kallithea.

This way, all libraries required by Kallithea will be installed separately from your

main Python installation and other applications and things will be less

problematic when upgrading the system or Kallithea.

An additional benefit of virtualenv is that it doesn't require root privileges.

- Assuming you have installed virtualenv, create a new virtual environment

  for example, in `/srv/kallithea/venv`, using the venv command::

    python3 -m venv /srv/kallithea/venv

- Activate the virtualenv in your current shell session and make sure the

    . /srv/kallithea/venv/bin/activate

    pip install --upgrade pip setuptools

.. note:: You can't use UNIX ``sudo`` to source the ``virtualenv`` script; it

   will "activate" a shell that terminates immediately. It is also perfectly

   acceptable (and desirable) to create a virtualenv as a normal user.

- Make a folder for Kallithea data files, and configuration somewhere on the

  filesystem. For example::

    mkdir /srv/kallithea