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 
> > 
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