Installing the Command-line Client

Each operating system has a different requirement to get ready for the command line tool. Mostly these depend on the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. Windows requires a binary package of RDFLib.

Installing the Command-line Client will also install all remaining dependencies (such as the DataONE Common Library for Python and the DataONE Client Library for Python).

This documentation does not cover installing Python.

After installation, the client will be installed into the python scripts directory. For example:

Ubuntu and MacOS:

/usr/local/bin/dataone

Windows:

C:\Apps\Python27\Scripts\dataone

Ubuntu

Ubuntu 10.04LTS uses Python 2.6 by default.

$ sudo apt-get install python2.6-dev python-setuptools libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
$ sudo easy_install DataONE_CommandLine

Ubuntu 12.04LTS uses Python 2.7 by default.

$ sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev python-setuptools libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
$ sudo easy_install DataONE_CommandLine

MacOS

This has been tested on 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8.

$ sudo env STATIC_DEPS=true easy_install --allow-hosts=lxml.de,*.python.org lxml==2.3.4
$ sudo easy_install DataONE_CommandLine

Windows

This has been tested on Windows 7 with Python 2.6 and Windows 8 (Developer’s Preview) with Python 2.7.

This also requires the binary package of RDFLib (which is available from DataONE).

C:\> easy_install "https://repository.dataone.org/software/python_products/d1_cli/rdflib-2.4.2-py2.7-win32.egg"
C:\> easy_install DataONE_CommandLine

Alternative method: subversion

The source code is available for the Common library, the Client library as well as the Command-line client from the DataONE repository:

$ svn co https://repository.dataone.org/software/cicore/tags/D1_COMMON_PYTHON_v1.0.1 d1_common_python
$ svn co https://repository.dataone.org/software/cicore/tags/D1_LIBCLIENT_PYTHON_v1.0.1 d1_libclient_python
$ svn co https://repository.dataone.org/software/cicore/tags/D1_CLIENT_CLI_v1.0.1 d1_client_cli

Perform whatever preparatory steps are required for your platform (see above). Then, change into each directory and install each package:

$ cd d1_common_python
$ python setup.py install --user
$ cd ../d1_libclient_python
$ python setup.py install --user
$ cd ../d1_client_cli
$ python setup.py install --user
$ cd ..