Tell people to "source" the activate script for virtualenv, Remove --user from pip install

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Mark Haines 10 years ago
parent b993555bf4
commit c3979b236e
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      README.rst

@ -121,19 +121,19 @@ you get errors about ``error: no such option: --process-dependency-links`` you
may need to manually upgrade it::
$ sudo pip install --upgrade pip
If pip crashes mid-installation for reason (e.g. lost terminal), pip may
refuse to run until you remove the temporary installation directory it
created. To reset the installation::
$ rm -rf /tmp/pip_install_matrix
pip seems to leak *lots* of memory during installation. For instance, a Linux
host with 512MB of RAM may run out of memory whilst installing Twisted. If this
happens, you will have to individually install the dependencies which are
failing, e.g.::
$ pip install --user twisted
$ pip install twisted
On OSX, if you encounter clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd' you
will need to export CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments.
@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ Synapse can be installed on Cygwin. It requires the following Cygwin packages:
- openssl (and openssl-devel, python-openssl)
- python
- python-setuptools
The content repository requires additional packages and will be unable to process
uploads without them:
- libjpeg8
@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ To actually run your new homeserver, pick a working directory for Synapse to run
(e.g. ``~/.synapse``), and::
$ cd ~/.synapse
$ ./bin/activate
$ source ./bin/activate
$ synctl start
Troubleshooting Running
@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ The homeserver has a number of external dependencies, that are easiest
to install using pip and a virtualenv::
$ virtualenv env
$ env/bin/activate
$ source env/bin/activate
$ python synapse/dependencies | xargs -i pip install
$ pip install setuptools_trial mock
@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ IMPORTANT: Before upgrading an existing homeserver to a new version, please
refer to UPGRADE.rst for any additional instructions.
Otherwise, simply re-install the new codebase over the current one - e.g.
by ``pip install --user --process-dependency-links
by ``pip install --process-dependency-links
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tarball/master``
if using pip, or by ``git pull`` if running off a git working copy.

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