Installation Guide

Supported Platforms: Linux (i386 and amd64 architectures)

Current Release

Version 2.5.0 has been released on March 10th, 2016.

Components

OpenXCAP

The XCAP server itself. Mandatory component.

Python-xcaplib

Optional component. XCAP client library that can be used for developing an XCAP client (Python only) or for testing the server using the xcapclient command line utility.

Dependencies

Python >=2.7 http://www.python.org
Twisted Core, Twisted Web and Twisted Web 2 >= 8.1.0 http://twistedmatrix.com
python-lxml >= 2.0.7 http://codespeak.net/lxml)
python-application >= 1.4.0 http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-application
python-gnutls >= 3.0.0 http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-gnutls
python-mysqldb >=1.2.2 http://pypi.python.org/simple/mysql-python
python-imaging >=1.1.7 http://pypi.python.org/simple/PIL/

Debian Packages

Add these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:

# AG Projects software
deb http://ag-projects.com/debian unstable main
deb-src http://ag-projects.com/debian unstable main

Install the AG Projects debian software signing key:

sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/agp-debian-key.gpg http://download.ag-projects.com/agp-debian-key.gpg

After that, run:

sudo apt-get update

Install OpenXCAP:

sudo apt-get install openxcap

Install xcap-client library:

sudo apt-get install python-xcaplib

Tar Archives

The software is available as a tar archive at:

http://download.ag-projects.com/XCAP/

Extract it using`` tar xzvf openxcap-version.tar.gz`` and change directory to the newly created openxcap directory.

Install the software:

cd openxcap
sudo python setup.py install

Version Control Repository

The source code is managed using darcs version control tool. The darcs repository can be fetched with:

darcs get http://devel.ag-projects.com/repositories/openxcap

Other packages like python-xcaplib can be obtained in the same way.

To obtain the incremental changes after the initial get:

cd openxcap
darcs pull -a

After completing this chapter, go to Presence Tutorial section.