This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Lewsnetter, a tool for sending bulk email, on Debian Latest using the command line.
Before starting this tutorial, you will need:
Update your Debian machine by running the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
Lewsnetter requires various dependencies before being installed. Run the following command to install them:
sudo apt-get install python python-dev python-setuptools python-pip python-tk python-psycopg2 python-crypto python-gpgme python-networkx python-dateutil python-progressbar python-requests python-requests-oauthlib python-pypdf2 python-simplejson python-redis python-xlsxwriter -y
sudo apt-get install swig libssl-dev gcc libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libssl-dev libxmlsec1-openssl
Clone the Lewsnetter repository using Git:
git clone https://github.com/bborn/lewsnetter.git
First, create a config file using the following command:
cp config.py.example config.py
Open the config.py file using your preferred text editor and add your Google API key and secret in the following lines:
GNUPGHOME = '/home/user/.gnupg'
DB_URI = 'sqlite:///app.db'
SECRET_KEY = 'your-secret-key'
GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID = 'your-client-id'
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET = 'your-client-secret'
Install required python libraries using pip:
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
sudo pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
Run the following command to initialize the database and create the tables:
python setup.py
Run the following command to start Lewsnetter:
python runserver.py
Your Lewsnetter should be accessible through your browser at http://127.0.0.1:5000/.
Congratulations! you have successfully installed Lewsnetter on Debian Latest.
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