Unclear installation process

[tristanbes]

Hello,

Is that possible to enhance documentation ? I find it not very clear when it comes to installation.

I tried building from source, but after doing python setup.py install --user I don't know what to except. Where is the executable ? How to make it available on the OS wise ?

I ended up using virtual env but I don't want to install all of those on the production environement, where the Cli will live, if possible.

Isn't it possible to use a custom repository for Debian/Ubuntu to install your cli tool via apt ?

[aegiap]

Gandi does not provide package repository for now. But a quick process to build the package could be:

Prepare the build env:

$ builddir=`mktemp -d --suffix=gandicli`
$ cd "${builddir}"
$ git clone https://github.com/Gandi/gandi.cli.git gandi.cli.git
$ cd gandi.cli.git
$ ln -sf packages/debian .

Install the build dependencies:

$ su -l root
# apt-get install debhelper python python-setuptools python3-setuptools  python-docutils  python3-docutils  dh-python python-nose  python3-nose

Build binary packages:

$ cd "${builddir}"
$ debuild -us -uc -b

Install the builded package

$ su -l root
# cd "${builddir}"
# dpkg -i python3-gandicli # or python-gandicli for the python2.7 version
# apt-get -f install

Note that you could also use sbuild to create the binary package.

Then we clean our temporary build env:

$ cd && rm -rf "${builddir}"
$ rm -v /tmp/python-gandicli*.deb /tmp/python3-gandicli*.deb /tmp/gandicli_*

[tristanbes]

Sorry if I got something wrong, but apt-get install python3-gandicli gave nothing so i did:

I ended up with dpkg errors because of missing dependency in python.

(PS: python --version returns Python 2.7.13

[aegiap]

@tristanbes indeed you should use dpkg -i python3-gandi instead of apt-get. This was a mistake in my comments.

You can fix the missing dependencies with apt-get install -f after the manual installation with dpkg.

[tristanbes]

So the apt-get install -f step should happen after dpkg -i python-gandicli_1.1_all.deb or It can be right before to prevent failure of dpkg ?

Thanks

[tristanbes]

Right after installing it: gandi gives:

root@ziggs ➜  ~ gandi
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gandi", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('gandi.cli==1.1', 'console_scripts', 'gandi')()
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 561, in load_entry_point
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2631, in load_entry_point
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2291, in load
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2297, in resolve
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gandi/cli/__main__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from gandi.cli.core.cli import cli
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gandi/cli/core/cli.py", line 12, in <module>
    from .base import GandiContextHelper
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gandi/cli/core/base.py", line 19, in <module>
    from .client import XMLRPCClient, APICallFailed, DryRunException, JsonClient
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gandi/cli/core/client.py", line 15, in <module>
    import requests
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/__init__.py", line 52, in <module>
    from .packages.urllib3.contrib import pyopenssl
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py", line 46, in <module>
    import OpenSSL.SSL
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenSSL/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from OpenSSL import rand, crypto, SSL
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenSSL/SSL.py", line 118, in <module>
    SSL_ST_INIT = _lib.SSL_ST_INIT
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SSL_ST_INIT'

[aegiap]

@tristanbes dpkg -i python-gandicli_*_all.deb install the package but dpkg does not resolve the dependencies graph and therefor does not install any dependencies. This is a task for apt. Using -f, it will fix the broken dependencies in the local installation. dpkg -i python-gandicli_*_all.deb && apt-get -f install. Before the dpkg command, there should be no broken dependencies on your system and running the apt-get -f install command before the dpkg command will not have any action.

[tristanbes]

ok thx for explanation. But once installed, I hit the AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SSL_ST_INIT'error though all depandancies are installed

[aegiap]

@tristanbes which version of python-requests is installed on your system ?

$ dpkg -l | awk '/python-(openssl|requests) / { print $1 "\t" $2 "\t" $3 }'

[tristanbes]

root@ziggs ➜  tmp.gHIaSsHtgngandicli dpkg -l | awk '/python-(openssl|requests) / { print $1 "\t" $2 "\t" $3 }'
ii  python-openssl  16.2.0-1
ii  python-requests 2.12.4-1

[tristanbes]

Meh, it seems like your instruction broke something in python because even our Ansible (not related to gandi.cli) can't connect to this server with the exact same message. Do you know how to revert/fix it ?

[aegiap]

@tristanbes check your /var/log/dpkg.log for the list of installed or update package with the dpkg and apt-get command and revert them. A partial list of package is shown in your screenshot.

[tristanbes]

Ok, removing python && re-installing it fixed the problem. Closing the issue. Would love a simpler installation process though ;-).

Thanks