DaboSetup

Note: You will need sudo privileges for all of the commands on this page.

About Dabo

Dabo is a 3-tier, cross-platform application development framework, written in Python atop the wxPython GUI toolkit. And while Dabo is designed to create database-centric apps, that is not a requirement. Lots of people are using Dabo for the GUI tools to create apps that have no need to connect to a database at all.

Installing wxPython

  1. Run sudo apt-get update. Once the update finishes, run sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8 python-wxtools.

Now you have successfully installed wxpython.

Installing A Database

Note: If you already have a database (must be SQLite, MySQL, PostrgeSQL, or Firebird) installed on your computer than you may skip over this section.

Dabo allows for a small variety of possible databases to use with it. Dabo works with SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Firebird. This page will only cover setting up SQLite to work with Dabo.

To install SQLite on your computer simply run the following command in your terminal: sudo apt-get install python-pysqlite2. Now you are ready to install Dabo.

Installing Dabo

(i) Needs updating and making more generic. PhilWyett

  1. There are 3 important parts to downloading Dabo. They include the core Dabo files (which are absolutely necessary), the Dabo demo files (which I recommend for beginners to Dabo), and the Dabo IDE files (which are very helpful when developing with Dabo). Download the following tar files: core files, demo files, and IDE files.

  2. From the command line change your directory to the directory where you downloaded the tar files (by default, Firefox downloads files to the Desktop).

  3. Run the following command: tar -xf dabo-0.7.2-mac-nix.tar.gz. This will create a folder in your current directory named dabo.

  4. Change to the directory and run sudo python setup.py. This will install dabo on your system.

  5. If you have also downloaded the dabo demo and/or IDE tar files, change back to the direcotry where you downloaded the tar files. For the demo files run tar -xf dabo dabodemo-0.7.2-mac-nix.tar.gz and for the IDE files run tar -xf dabo daboide-0.7.1-mac-nix.tar.gz.

Once you have run those 2 commands you are finished installing Dabo on your system.

To begin using Dabo, run the ClassDesigner.py file in the daboide folder.

Links

Dabo homepage: http://dabodev.com

DaboSetup (last edited 2008-08-06 16:25:18 by localhost)