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Installing Bikeshed

If you use Bikeshed infrequently, or are okay with requiring a network roundtrip every time you invoke Bikeshed, you probably want to use the Bikeshed API instead https://api.csswg.org/bikeshed/. In return, the API version is always up-to-date, so you don't have to remember to update things yourself.

If you want to run a local copy of Bikeshed rather than use the cgi version, it’s pretty easy to install.

You need to install Python 2.7, PIP, and a few other support libraries before installing Bikeshed itself. Here is how to do this on Debian-based Linuxen (anything using apt), OS X, and Windows 7/8/10:

Linux steps

$ sudo apt-get install python2.7 python-dev python-pip libxslt1-dev libxml2-dev

The apt-get command works on Debian-based systems like Ubuntu; if you work on some other type of system, and can figure out how to get things working on your own, let me know and I'll add instructions for your system.

Then, we'll need to install lxml and Pygments.

$ sudo pip install pygments
$ sudo pip install lxml

Important: If this command reports that you already have lxml, instead run:

$ sudo pip install lxml --upgrade

That'll spew a lot of console trash, but don't worry about it.

From here, you can follow the commons steps outlined below.

OS X steps

Note: If you're on a relatively modern Mac you should be able to proceed directly to Common steps.

These instructions assume that you have Mac Ports or Homebrew installed. If you successfully install Bikeshed using some other method, please contribute to this documentation.

Mac ports

First, get the right packages installed onto your system:

sudo port install python27 py27-pip py27-lxml py27-html5lib py27-cssselect py27-libxslt py27-libxml2 py27-pygments

Then, activate the python version you just installed as the one the system should use:

sudo port select --set python python27

(If you get ImportError: No module named six when you first run Bikeshed, additionally run sudo port install py27-six.)

Homebrew

Install the Homebrew version of Python and Pip:

brew install python

Install the XCode command-line tools:

xcode-select --install

Install or update lxml and Pygments.

$ pip install pygments lxml --upgrade

That'll spew a lot of console trash, but don't worry about it.

From here, you can follow the commons steps outlined below.

Windows steps

Tested on Windows 7, 8/8.1 & 10

  1. Install the latest Python 2.7
  2. Run the following in an elevated command prompt (change the path if your location is different)
setx /m PATH "%PATH%;C:\Python27;C:\Python27\Scripts"
  1. Install PIP by saving get-pip.py and just double clicking the file.
  2. Install LXML for your version of Python (it should be lxml-3.4.0win32-py2.7.exe)
  3. Run $ python -m pip install pygments.

From here, you can follow the commons steps outlined below.

Common steps

With the dependencies in place, you can now install the Bikeshed repository itself. Run the following in your favorite command line:

$ git clone https://github.com/tabatkins/bikeshed.git

(This’ll download bikeshed to a bikeshed folder, created wherever you’re currently at. If you think you might want to commit back to Bikeshed, instead download it over SSH. I won’t explain how to do that here.)

Finally, run:

For Linux/OSX (Omit the sudo for OSX under Homebrew):

$ sudo pip install --editable /path/to/cloned/bikeshed
$ bikeshed update

On Windows:

$ python -m pip install --editable /path/to/cloned/bikeshed
$ bikeshed update

This’ll install Bikeshed, making it available to your Python environment as the bikeshed package, automatically add a bikeshed command to your path, and then update your data files to the latest versions.

To update bikeshed to its latest version at any time, just enter Bikeshed’s folder, and run:

$ git pull --rebase
$ bikeshed update

This’ll pull the latest version of Bikeshed, and ensure that you’re looking at the latest version of the data files, rather than whatever stale version is currently sitting in the repo.

See the Quick Start Guide for a quick run-through of how to actually use the processor, and the rest of the docs for more detailed information.

(If anything doesn’t work in here, let me know and I’ll fix it. These instructions have worked for a lot of people on all OSes, but it's possible that you'll run into a new error, because computers are terrible.)