Installation instructions depend whether the system on which you're attempting to install Supervisor has 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
<http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/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
<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/supervisor>
_. 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 sucessfully invoke python
setup.py install
.
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
<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools>
_.
meld3 (latest) from http://www.plope.com/software/meld3/
<http://www.plope.com/software/meld3/>
_.
elementtree (latest) from http://effbot.org/downloads#elementtree
<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
sucessfully for each 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.
With pip >= 1.4
.. code-block:: bash
pip install supervisor --pre
With previous versions of pip:
.. code-block:: bash
pip install supervisor
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.