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Commit 03c25ebe authored by TurnedToDust's avatar TurnedToDust
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Update to README.rst

Added Documentation regarding ArchLinux
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......@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ Installing prerequisites on Ubuntu or Debian::
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential python2.7-dev libffi-dev \
python-pip python-setuptools sqlite3 \
libssl-dev python-virtualenv libjpeg-dev
Installing prerequisites on ArchLinux::
$ sudo pacman -S base-devel python2 python-pip \
python-setuptools python-virtualenv sqlite3
Installing prerequisites on Mac OS X::
......@@ -148,6 +153,31 @@ failing, e.g.::
On OSX, if you encounter clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd' you
will need to export CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments.
ArchLinux
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ArchLinux with the default installation of prerequisites, and your System itself. The installation may encounter a few Hiccups.
python2.7 is Needed and I believe by default Arch uses Python3.
pip is outdated (6.0.7-1 and needs to be upgraded to 6.0.8-1 ):
- $ sudo pip2.7 install --upgrade pip
You also may need to call 2.7 again during the install request:
- $ sudo pip2.7 install --process-dependency-links https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tarball/master
If you encounter an error with lib bcrypt Causing an Wrong Elf Class: ELFCLASS32 (x64 Systems):
you need to remove py-bcrypt itself and then reinstall it to correctly compile under your architecture
- $ sudo pip2.7 uninstall py-bcrypt
- $ sudo pip2.7 install py-bcrypt
During setup of homeserver you need to call (depending) python2.7 directly again:
- $ sudo python2.7 -m synapse.app.homeserver \
--server-name machine.my.domain.name \
--config-path homeserver.yaml \
--generate-config
Substituting your host and domain name as appropriate.
Windows Install
---------------
Synapse can be installed on Cygwin. It requires the following Cygwin packages:
......@@ -207,6 +237,14 @@ fix try re-installing from PyPI or directly from
$ # Install from github
$ pip install --user https://github.com/pyca/pynacl/tarball/master
ArchLinux
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If running $ synctl start , causes the following error
"subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['python', '-m', 'synapse.app.homeserver', '--daemonize', '-c', 'homeserver.yaml', '--pid-file', 'homeserver.pid']' returned non-zero exit status 1"
You need to call 2.7 again by directly using
- $ python2.7 -m synapse.app.homeserver --daemonize -c homeserver.yaml --pid-file homeserver.pid
Homeserver Development
======================
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