CKAN is an open-source data management platform that helps organizations manage and publish datasets. It can be installed on macOS with the following steps:
Before installing CKAN, you need to ensure that your system has the following:
If you don't have these tools installed, you can use Homebrew to install them. To install Homebrew, run the following command in your terminal:
$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
After installing Homebrew, you can use it to install the required tools as follows:
$ brew install python
$ brew install git
$ brew install postgresql
$ pip install virtualenv
Once you've installed the prerequisites, you can install CKAN to your system with these steps:
Clone the CKAN repository using Git:
$ git clone https://github.com/ckan/ckan.git
$ cd ckan
Create a virtual environment for CKAN:
$ virtualenv ckanenv
$ source ckanenv/bin/activate
Install the required dependencies for CKAN:
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Set up the CKAN database and configure the instance:
$ paster make-config ckan development.ini
$ paster db init -c development.ini
$ paster serve development.ini
You can now access CKAN by opening your web browser and going to http://localhost:5000.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed CKAN on your macOS machine.
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