5 .. Copyright (c) 2020 mudpy authors. Permission to use, copy,
6 modify, and distribute this software is granted under terms
7 provided in the LICENSE file distributed with this software.
9 This guide provides quick setup instructions for a basic mudpy
10 installation, sufficient as a starting point for further
11 configuration and customization.
16 There's a :ref:`demo` in the :doc:`coder` guide which will get you
17 up and running right away if you're familiar with the ``tox``
18 utility, but you can get by with just a supported Python_
19 interpreter. It's still easiest to do it from a `git clone`_ or
20 unpacked tarball_ of the source code so you have sample
21 configuration to work from. As long as your distro doesn't strip the
22 ``venv`` module out of Python's standard library, from the top-level
23 source directory you could basically install it as a normal shell
26 python3 -m venv mudpy_venv
27 mudpy_venv/bin/pip install .
29 And then you can start the service with::
33 If the ``python3`` command above emits an error like *No module
34 named venv*, then you're probably on a distribution like Debian
35 which needs the `python3-venv package`_ installed with your package
38 .. _Python: https://python.org/
39 .. _git clone: https://mudpy.org/code/mudpy/
40 .. _tarball: https://mudpy.org/dist/mudpy/
41 .. _python3-venv package: https://packages.debian.org/python3-venv
46 The mudpy service is self-initializing the first time you start it,
47 though you need some minimum configuration in its config search
48 path. The installation_ example above uses the sample
49 :file:`etc/mudpy.conf` configuration provided in the source tree,
50 but you can edit this or make a modified copy and pass its name as
51 the only command-line argument to the executable entrypoint::
53 mudpy_venv/bin/mudpy my_config.yaml
55 By default it'll only listen on the loopback address, but that's
56 configurable in the `network settings <.mudpy.network>`_ of course.
57 The basic element definitions are included in the :file:`share`
58 directory as well as basic archetype, command and menu element
59 definitions. The default configuration is set so that if anyone
60 creates a user named "admin" then that account will start with
61 administrative privileges, configurable in the `admins limit
62 <.mudpy.limit.admins>`_.
64 Using ``pip`` to install in a venv or with its ``--user`` option
65 takes care of making sure the Python package dependencies listed in
66 the :file:`requirements.txt` file are available, but it should be
67 possible to run :file:`mudpy/daemon.py` as a normal python3 script
68 as long as you've installed your distro's packages of the
69 dependencies (on Debian/Ubuntu that's python3-passlib_ and
70 python3-yaml_, they're probably named something similar on other
73 .. _python3-passlib: https://packages.debian.org/python3-passlib
74 .. _python3-yaml: https://packages.debian.org/python3-yaml
79 There's a good chance that some of the file handling and socket
80 routines are not cross-platform compatible and will only work on
81 Unix derivatives like Linux, \*BSD or GNU Hurd (possibly also Mac OS
82 X/Darwin since it's essentially a BSD descendant). All changes to
83 the codebase are tested on Debian GNU/Linux, but it should at least
84 work reliably on any Linux distribution with a new enough Python
85 interpreter. It probably also works on Microsoft Windows under the
86 WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) compatibility layer.