Installation

Pre-Requirements

packman uses the following 3rd party components:

• ruby - required for fpm
• fpm -main packaging framework
• pip >1.5 -to download python modules (and install packman)
• virtualenv (OPTIONAL) -to create python virtual environments.
• rubygems (OPTIONAL) -to download ruby gems
• rpmbuild (OPTIONAL) -to create rpms
• tar (OPTIONAL) -to create tars
• gzip (OPTIONAL) -to create tar.gz’s

Note

the rest of the requirements are python modules which will be installed with packman

Note

a script is provided to install the above requirements.

Installing Packman

You can install packman by running pip install packman. Of course, you must have the prereqs installed to fully utilize packman‘s potential...

Note

The vagrantfile provided in the github repo can supply you with a fully working packman machine.