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Documentation - Install
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by Rimon Barr

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6.3.1. Automated installation - RPM

The easiest way to install Spyce on Linux is via RPM. Download the file from the link above and, as root user on your system, type in the following command: (If you upgrading Spyce, it is recommended to uninstall the previous version using rpm -e spyce, and then install a fresh copy, as opposed to using the rpm -U option.)

  rpm -i spyce-1.3.13-1.rpm

This will:

  • Install the Spyce engine
  • Install the web-based and command-line Spyce processors
  • Configure Apache to process .spy files via fast cgi, if installed or regular cgi otherwise
  • Restart the server
  • Install the Spyce documentation under http://localhost/spyce
Note that the default Apache installation does not come with FastCGI configured. Thus, you will be running Spyce via CGI, which is slow. If you install FastCGI, you will get a considerable performance boost. Alternatively, you could configure the mod_python adapter, or use the proxy server, for a similar performance boost.

Note to Redhat users: Spyce should install without a hitch on RedHat 8.0 machines and up. Redhat (up until version 8.0) still used Python version 1.5, as many standard scripts depended on it. If you want to run Spyce with some of the newer Python2 rpms, you will need to change top line of the run_spyceCmd.py, run_spyceCGI.py, run_spyceModpy.py and verchk.py scripts, or reconfigure your path so that the default python is the version that you want.

Note to Mandrake users: Users have reported this distribution to have no problems with the RPM.


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