Thanks Martha for mentioning that! We should make sure to add that bit of information to our documentation.
Director of Web Development - Farallon Geographics, Inc. - 971.227.3173 On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 9:20 AM Martha S <martha.se...@lacity.org> wrote: > Researcher, > > I hope you've conquered your install difficulties, but I have one more bit > of information that might help. Two of us who were doing 4.4.1 installs on > fresh machines ran into similar issues with missing modules. Colin Wu > shared his discovery that pip needs to be upgraded both before you enter > your virtual environment and again after. That worked for me and the > install went very smoothly after that. > > Hope that helps, > Martha > > > > On Monday, April 15, 2019 at 6:20:54 AM UTC-7, Researcher wrote: >> >> Hi Dennis and Adam (and all), >> Thanks for your responses and I apologise if I've come across as >> unproductive or critical, it was not my intention and I did not intend to >> cause any offense - I do appreciate that many people have used Arches well, >> it is *amazing *that it is offered free and that these issues do seem to >> be specific to my system. >> Looking back, I can see now that some of my comments could have been >> interpreted in a way other than the jest in which they were meant - I have >> a sarcastic nature, but it's so often lost in text and I'll keep it in >> check. >> I do appreciate the time and effort that people are going to in order to >> help me and others (often in their own time) and I imagine there are now >> similar levels of frustration around albeit for very different reasons. >> >> I've had some very encouraging messages from several members of the >> community and I'm glad to see that Arches is a popular platform used by >> many. I know I am operating way out of my level of expertise but I was >> hoping that we could still pursue Arches with appropriate support, but I >> accept that it may just be the case that we need to look elsewhere for our >> particular circumstances. I'll spend some more time this week seeing if I >> can get anywhere with it (and seeing what our IT support can do). I'd >> appreciate any more assistance that the community can offer along the way. >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> On Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 6:01:13 PM UTC-3, Dennis Wuthrich wrote: >>> >>> 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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