Hello Researcher. I'm sorry that you're having such a difficult time installing Arches. And I get that it's very frustrating when you keep seeing errors at each step. However, please keep a few things in mind:
1. The Arches development team is not trying to make it hard for you to use the software. However, it is sophisticated technology and we assume that people installing Arches have appropriate IT experience 2. There are many reasons your specific computer might not have installed the software properly. That is, the problem might be your machine configuration, not necessarily Arches 3. Arches has been installed successfully many times by many people all over the world. It can be done! I've heard from several members of the Arches community, and there is a concern that the tone in your posts requesting help is a bit off-putting and not in line with the Arches community's guidelines. Please have a look at https://www.archesproject.org/code-of-conduct/ to review our code of conduct. Many of the people trying to help you have invested a lot of effort in building the software, and many volunteer their time to help community members like you who ask for assistance. Cheers, Dennis On Friday, April 12, 2019 at 8:13:54 AM UTC-7, Researcher wrote: > > Latest update: > I've been messing around again and managed to get back to the 'Arches > installed stage' and even created a project (step 5), and lo and behold > step 6 has also thrown up an issue. > Firstly, I don't understand what *any* of this means: > "Before you continue, you may need to open > my_project\my_project\settings_local.py and change some > environment-specific settings. > > - > > Depending on your Postgres/PostGIS installation, you may need to > uncomment the DATABASES section and change the username and password, as > well as the name of your PostGIS template database. If you will have > multiple Arches projects using the same Postgres server, make sure to > change the database name here as well." > > BUT I've tried the second part of step 6 and come up with this now too: > > (ENV) C:\Users\FIMNT>GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH = "C:\OSGeo4W64\bin\gdal204.dll" > 'GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH' is not recognized as an internal or external command, > operable program or batch file. > > Any more thoughts from anyone on this one, so I can get to stage 7 and see > what new problems that has? > (in simple/step-by-step terms, ideally) > > Thanks, > > On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 4:01:54 PM UTC-3, Researcher 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 archesproject@googlegroups.com. 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