Official releases are available from the CubicWeb.org forge and from PyPI. Since CubicWeb is developed using Agile software development techniques, releases happen frequently. In a version numbered X.Y.Z, X changes after a few years when the API breaks, Y changes after a few weeks when features are added and Z changes after a few days when bugs are fixed.
Depending on your needs, you will chose a different way to install CubicWeb on your system:
If you are a power-user and need the very latest features, you will
Once the software is installed, move on to Set-up of a CubicWeb environment for better control and advanced features of CubicWeb.
CubicWeb is packaged for Debian/Ubuntu (and derived distributions). Their integrated package-management system make installation and upgrade much easier for users since dependencies (like databases) are automatically installed.
Depending on the distribution you are using, add the appropriate line to your list of sources (for example by editing /etc/apt/sources.list).
For Debian Squeeze (stable):
deb http://download.logilab.org/production/ squeeze/
For Debian Sid (unstable):
deb http://download.logilab.org/production/ sid/
For Ubuntu Lucid (Long Term Support) and newer:
deb http://download.logilab.org/production/ lucid/
Note that for Ubuntu Maverick and newer, you shall use the `lucid`
repository and install the ``libgecode19`` package from `lucid
universe <http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libgecode19>`_.
The repositories are signed with the Logilab’s gnupg key. You can download and register the key to avoid warnings:
wget -q http://download.logilab.org/logilab-dists-key.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Update your list of packages and perform the installation:
apt-get update
apt-get install cubicweb cubicweb-dev
cubicweb installs the framework itself, allowing you to create new instances. cubicweb-dev installs the development environment allowing you to develop new cubes.
There is also a wide variety of cubes. You can access a list of available cubes using apt-cache search cubicweb or at the CubicWeb.org forge.
Note
cubicweb-dev will install basic sqlite support. You can easily setup cubicweb with other database using the following virtual packages :
You need to have python version >= 2.5 and < 3 installed.
If you want an automated install, your best option is probably the easy_install install. EasyInstall is a tool that helps users to install python packages along with their dependencies, searching for suitable pre-compiled binaries on the The Python Package Index.
If you want better control over the process as well as a suitable development environment or if you are having problems with easy_install, read on to Installing a development environement on Windows.
Since version 3.9, CubicWeb can be safely installed, used and contained inside a virtualenv. You can use either pip or easy_install to install CubicWeb inside an activated virtual environment.
pip is a python utility that helps downloading, building, installing, and managing python packages and their dependencies. It is fully compatible with virtualenv and installs the packages from sources published on the The Python Package Index.
A working compilation chain is needed to build the modules that include C extensions. If you definitively wont, installing Lxml, Twisted and libgecode will help.
To install CubicWeb and its dependencies, just run:
pip install cubicweb
There is also a wide variety of cubes. You can access a list of available cubes on PyPI or at the CubicWeb.org forge.
For example, installing the blog cube is achieved by:
pip install cubicweb-blog
Note
If you are not a Windows user and you have a compilation environment, we recommend you to use the PipInstallation.
easy_install is a python utility that helps downloading, installing, and managing python packages and their dependencies.
Install CubicWeb and its dependencies, run:
easy_install cubicweb
There is also a wide variety of cubes. You can access a list of available cubes on PyPI or at the CubicWeb.org Forge.
For example, installing the blog cube is achieved by:
easy_install cubicweb-blog
Note
If you encounter problem with cubes installation, consider using pip install which is more stable but can not installed pre-compiled binaries.
You can download the archive containing the sources from http://download.logilab.org/pub/cubicweb/.
Make sure you also have all the Installation dependencies.
Once uncompressed, you can install the framework from inside the uncompressed folder with:
python setup.py install
Or you can run CubicWeb directly from the source directory by setting the resource mode to user. This will ease the development with the framework.
There is also a wide variety of cubes. You can access a list of availble cubes at the CubicWeb.org Forge.
To keep-up with on-going development, clone the Mercurial repository:
hg clone -u stable http://hg.logilab.org/cubicweb # stable branch
hg clone http://hg.logilab.org/cubicweb # development branch
To get many of CubicWeb’s dependencies and a nice set of base cubes, run the clone_deps.py script located in cubicweb/bin/:
python cubicweb/bin/clone_deps.py
(Windows users should replace slashes with antislashes).
This script will clone a set of mercurial repositories into the directory containing the cubicweb repository, and update them to the latest published version tag (if any).
Note
In every cloned repositories, a hg tags will display a list of tags in reverse chronological order. One reasonnable option is to go to a tagged version: the latest published version or example, as done by the clone_deps script):
hg update cubicweb-version-3.12.2
Make sure you also have all the Installation dependencies.