Installing Bauble on Linux

Unfortunately we don't have any packages for installing Bauble on Linux and the installation has to be done manually. It's not as difficult as it looks. If anyone is willing to create a Linux package (.deb, .rpm) for me then let me know.

Disclaimer: This doesn't describe how to setup and install a database server. If you don't know how to do that then you can use SQLite as the database backend to Bauble.

SQLite is a file based database and though it won't have the same features as the other databases such as networking and multiuser support it may be all you need to manager your collections.

The Installation

1. Install dependencies:
   • GTK+
   • pygtk
   • SQLAlchemy
   • lxml
   • simplejson
   • Database connector
     • Postgres - psycopg2
     • SQLite - if using Python2.5 then Bauble can use the builtin sqlite3 module else install pysqlite
2. To be able to generate and print reports using the default report generator download and install Apache FOP.
3. Download Bauble and extract the archive. From the command line go to the directory where you extracted the files and type:

   sudo python setup.py install

4. Type bauble at the command line to run Bauble.

Feel free to contact me if you need help. You can find my contact details at the bottom of http://bauble.belizebotanic.org