The main requirements for successfull installation are: >=python 3.1.2, >=sqlalchemy 0.6 and bottle
Python can be installed by simply downloading installer for your OS here or, if you are on a linux-based OS -- by package manager. For instance Ubuntu users can do it by: $ sudo aptitude install python3
For a quick installation of sqlalchemy it's better to have pip or easy_install utilities, if you have so, just use one of the following: $ sudo easy_install SQLAlchemy $ sudo pip install SQLAlchemy
(If your OS have multiple python installations probably your easy_install will have some suffix like -3.1, for instance in gentoo it have a name **easy_install-3.1**)
Or if you can't or don't want to have none of this nice tools you can download SQLAlchemy directly here and execute: $ sudo python setup.py install
Bottle can be installed installed in a same way as SQLAlchemy, but with replacing in commands above word 'SQLAlchemy' with 'bottle'. Also you can read more info about bottle here
If you're contributor or you made a fork of this project you must follow 3 simple steps before start to pushing your changes (and also 2 steps, that are required anywhere at github). In order to keep consistency while working at different OS's (like in our team, each person have OS, different from others - Windows, Linux, Mac) you should add simple settings to your git config (global settings preferred for future use in other projects): core.whitespace=fix,-indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space,cr-at-eol core.eol=lf core.autocrlf=false You could add them by git config, replacing the equal (=) signs with whitespace and optionally pass a --global key if you want to set this settings globally.
Comandline tests can be run, by tester test.py. It has some simple options, which you can read by $ src/test.py --help
To run all tests: $ src/test.py tests/
Make sure that your port 80 isn't already occupied. Then you must run src/server.py with root privileges. For instance you can do it with sudo: $ sudo src/server.py
After that you can view client at http://localhost/
To generate factions and other stuff you need to initialize your DB, simply run init_database.py. Be carefull because it will erase your existing DB.