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Setting up a Pootle development instance

Pootle's installation instructions are on the Pootle wiki. Make sure to follow the (django-based) installation instructions, not the ones referring to jToolkit.

• have Python 2.5 installed
• grab an svn checkout of the Pootle trunk:
  • svn co https://translate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/translate/src/trunk pootle ... or
  • git svn clone -Ttrunk https://translate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/translate/src/ pootle
  • if you are using git-svn, make sure to generate an empty dbs directory, as git won't pick up empty directories [1]
• create a clean Python environment for the application, using virtualenv (you don't want to install all required libs in your global python directory):
  • virtualenv --no-site-packages --python=path/to/python2.5 pootle-env
  • cd pootle-env/
  • . bin/activate
• Install the pre-requisites. Some notes:
  • PyLucene and Xapian are not vital
  • The translate toolkit is part of the Pootle project too, and while it comes with an svn checkout of the trunk you still need to install it:
    • cd pootle
    • python setup.py install
• Initialize the database by running the ./PootleServer script once.
• You can run the pootle server later by using ./manage.py runserver PORTNUMBER (if you omit PORTNUMBER, it'll default to 8000) [2]