Tobiko Installation Guide

Document Overview

This document describes how to install Tobiko inside a Python virtualenv.

Install Tobiko Using virtualenv

Make sure gcc, Git and base Python packages are installed on your system.

For instance on a RHEL7 or CentOS 7 machine you could type:

sudo yum install -y gcc git python python-devel wget

For instance on a RHEL8 or CentOS 8 machine you could type:

sudo dnf install -y gcc git python3 python3-devel wget
sudo alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python3

Make sure pip is installed and up-to-date:

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py
PIP=$(which pip)

Make sure setuptools, virtualenv, and wheel are installed and up-to-date:

sudo $PIP install --upgrade setuptools virtualenv wheel

Get Tobiko source code using Git and enter into Tobiko source folder:

git clone https://opendev.org/x/tobiko.git
cd tobiko

To install Tobiko and its dependencies it’s safest to create a clean virtualenv to install it. Create a virtualenv and activate it:

virtualenv .tobiko-env
source .tobiko-env/bin/activate

Install Tobiko and its requirements:

pip install \
    -c https://opendev.org/openstack/requirements/raw/branch/master/upper-constraints.txt \
    .

What’s Next

To know how to configure Tobiko please read Tobiko Configuration Guide.