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5.1. How to Install Fabric
Introduction
Fabric (http://www.fabfiles.org ) is a python deployment tool to automate builds.
Setup
You need to have at least python 2.5 installed in your system
First update your operating system --
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Then install subversion,python-dev headers and setuptools --
sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion python-dev python-setuptools
Now easy_install fabric
sudo easy_install fabric
If you are on python 2.6 you will need to update the Paramiko package used by Fabric :
sudo easy_install paramiko
You can check your python version by running :
python -V
Quick Guide
All of the commands listed above are presented in a sequence (for easy copy and paste into a terminal window ) :
First switch to the root user
sudo -s
Then paste these commands and enter --
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade -y
apt-get install build-essential subversion python-dev python-setuptools -y
easy_install fabric paramiko