Sorry to hear that you have had trouble! If you just want to test it out, I
agree with Adam that the demo installation is a good option. The direct
link to that is http://v4demo.archesproject.org/

Ben

On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 at 12:23, Adam Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello, the error you found won't be especially difficult to overcome, but
> it does sound like perhaps you may like to just try out the demo
> installation that you can get to from the archesproject.org home page?
>
> To handle the error, you'll need to activate your virtual environment, as
> described in step 3 of the installation guide you linked to.
>
> Hope that helps!
> Adam
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 2:01 PM 'Researcher' via Arches Project <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I've been struggling through trying to install Arches all day today
>> (historian background, not IT professional!) and I thought I was getting
>> somewhere reaching the point where it told me Arches had been installed (in
>> Windows command prompt) but even our IT support are unable to get very far
>> beyond that. Anyone got any advice? Is there a simpler way? I just wanted
>> to try out the software, not get a degree in coding before I had even seen
>> what it looked like.
>> I tried to run step 7 on the install guide:
>> https://arches.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation/
>> but it says you need elasticsearch running. I tried to install
>> elasticsearch from the "easiest way" (dread to think what the hard way
>> looks like) as per below:
>>
>> The easiest way to install Elasticsearch is to use a command that comes
>> with Arches. Once you have installed Arches (either with pip or from the 
>> Arches
>> repo <https://github.com/archesproject/arches>), activate your virtual
>> environment, enter your app/project root directory (the one that contains
>> manage.py), run
>>
>> python manage.py es install
>>
>> Elasticsearch will be installed in the root folder. You can specify an
>> alternate destination for the installation by using the -d argument. For
>> example
>>
>> python manage.py es install -d C:\Projects
>>
>> will result in a new directory C:\Projects\elasticsearch-5.2.1 from
>> which you’ll be able to run Elasticsearch.
>>
>> I tried this and got the following:
>> (ENV) C:\Users\FIMNT\my_project>python manage.py es install
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "manage.py", line 27, in <module>
>>     from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
>> ImportError: No module named django.core.management
>>
>> Obviously I or the software have done something wrong but I've spent the
>> entire day working like this with every single step having some kind of
>> problem and our IT support service is also struggling to see why it's
>> having so many issues.
>> Anyone able to guide us through in a simpler way, enlighten me past this
>> step and onto the next error or should I give up on Arches now seeing as
>> it's taken me a day and I can't even install it, yet alone set it up or
>> operate it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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