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, >> >> -- >> -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To >> unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. >> For more information, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Arches Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, > send email to [email protected]. For more > information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Arches Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
