Thanks. Travis. Is there a requirements.txt somewhere, or should I just put one together based on the terminal output from installing ubuntu packages? Pip does not automatically install dependencies, for some reason...
On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 4:21:57 PM UTC-5, Travis Leleu wrote: > > I'd recommend installing using pip, instead of the ubuntu packages. > That works better with a virtual environment. To run scrapy in a > venv, just setup the venv and install scrapy, ipython, and all > dependencies. This should solve all your questions. > > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Malik Rumi <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > 1. I used the ubuntu package to install and all seems to have gone well > with > > that. However, when I follow the tutorial to run scrapy startproject > > tutorial, I got /usr/local/bin/scrapy no such file or directory. Then I > ran > > /usr/bin/scrapy and it was fine. So for the time being I have to run > that > > everywhere I should be able to just run 'scrapy'. I can live with this, > but > > if there is a way to get this to install to the 'right' place and save > me a > > few keystrokes without messing things up, i'd like to know about them. > > > > 2. When calling scrapy shell, the tutorial docs say it should open in > > ipython. I do have ipython, but it is attached to Python 3.4. When I ran > > /usr/bin/scrapy shell, I got a regular interpreter. Since the rest of > scrapy > > seems to be working ok, I assumed the dependencies resolved by the > ubuntu > > packages included binding it to 2.7. If so, what is the best way to > access > > ipython through the scrapy shell, again, without messing up anything > working > > i have already? > > > > 3. I was surprised that there was no reference to using a virtualenv in > the > > docs. Do people not use scrapy that way? > > > > thanks > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "scrapy-users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scrapy-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
