Quick Start

Installing Plinth

Install the dependencies:

apt-get install pandoc psmisc python2.7 python-bcrypt python-cherrypy3 python-django python-passlib python-bootstrapform libjs-twitter-bootstrap sudo

Unzip and untar the source into a directory. Change to the directory containing the program. Run:

$ make

To start Plinth, run:

$ ./start.sh

and point your web browser at localhost:8000. The default username is "admin" and the default password is "secret".

Dependencies

The documentation has some dependencies too.

Building the Documentation

Documentation has been collected into a pdf that can be built using make doc. It also gets built into smaller files and other formats, including one suitable for install as a man page.