Installing ========== Installation instructions depend whether the system on which you're attempting to install Supervisor has internet access. Installing to A System With Internet Access ------------------------------------------- If your system has internet access, you can get Supervisor installed in two ways: - Using ``easy_install``, which is a feature of `setuptools `_. This is the preferred method of installation. - By downloading the Supervisor package and invoking a command. Internet-Installing With Setuptools ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If the Python interpreter you're using has Setuptools installed, and the system has internet access, you can download and install supervisor in one step using ``easy_install``. .. code-block:: bash easy_install supervisor Depending on the permissions of your system's Python, you might need to be the root user to install Supervisor successfully using ``easy_install``. Internet-Installing Without Setuptools ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If your system does not have setuptools installed, you will need to download the Supervisor distribution and install it by hand. Current and previous Supervisor releases may be downloaded from `PyPi `_. After unpacking the software archive, run ``python setup.py install``. This requires internet access. It will download and install all distributions depended upon by Supervisor and finally install Supervisor itself. .. note:: Depending on the permissions of your system's Python, you might need to be the root user to successfully invoke ``python setup.py install``. Installing To A System Without Internet Access ---------------------------------------------- If the system that you want to install Supervisor to does not have Internet access, you'll need to perform installation slightly differently. Since both ``easy_install`` and ``python setup.py install`` depend on internet access to perform downloads of dependent software, neither will work on machines without internet access until dependencies are installed. To install to a machine which is not internet-connected, obtain the following dependencies on a machine which is internet-connected: - setuptools (latest) from `http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools `_. - meld3 (latest) from `http://www.plope.com/software/meld3/ `_. - elementtree (latest) from `http://effbot.org/downloads#elementtree `_. Copy these files to removable media and put them on the target machine. Install each onto the target machine as per its instructions. This typically just means unpacking each file and invoking ``python setup.py install`` in the unpacked directory. Finally, run supervisor's ``python setup.py install``. .. note:: Depending on the permissions of your system's Python, you might need to be the root user to invoke ``python setup.py install`` successfully for each package. Installing a Distribution Package --------------------------------- Some Linux distributions offer a version of Supervisor that is installable through the system package manager. These packages may include distribution-specific changes to Supervisor. .. note:: Some of these packages can lag considerably behind the official release version. For example, Ubuntu 12.04 (released April 2012) offers a package based on Supervisor 3.0a8 (released January 2010). Use the package management tools of your distribution to check availability; e.g. on Ubuntu you can run ``apt-cache show supervisor``, and on CentOS you can run ``yum info supervisor``. Packaged Supervisor will normally already be integrated into the service management infrastructure of your distribution. Installing via pip ------------------ Supervisor can be installed with ``pip install``: .. code-block:: bash pip install supervisor Creating a Configuration File ----------------------------- Once the Supervisor installation has completed, run ``echo_supervisord_conf``. This will print a "sample" Supervisor configuration file to your terminal's stdout. Once you see the file echoed to your terminal, reinvoke the command as ``echo_supervisord_conf > /etc/supervisord.conf``. This won't work if you do not have root access. If you don't have root access, or you'd rather not put the :file:`supervisord.conf` file in :file:`/etc/supervisord.conf``, you can place it in the current directory (``echo_supervisord_conf > supervisord.conf``) and start :program:`supervisord` with the ``-c`` flag in order to specify the configuration file location. For example, ``supervisord -c supervisord.conf``. Using the ``-c`` flag actually is redundant in this case, because :program:`supervisord` searches the current directory for a :file:`supervisord.conf` before it searches any other locations for the file, but it will work. See :ref:`running` for more information about the ``-c`` flag. Once you have a configuration file on your filesystem, you can begin modifying it to your liking.