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diff --git a/docs/userguides/installation.rst b/docs/userguides/installation.rst index 96970bdb..bd47519a 100755 --- a/docs/userguides/installation.rst +++ b/docs/userguides/installation.rst @@ -17,21 +17,26 @@ Execution of installation script: .. code:: bash - cd systems - ./build_base_machine.sh + $ cd systems + $ ./build_base_machine.sh Please note: you don't need to go into any of the systems subdirectories, simply run the top level build_base_machine.sh, your OS will be detected automatically. +build_base_machine.sh will install all the vsperf dependencies in terms of +system packages and Python modules, it will also use `virtualenv`_ to create a +vsperf virtual environment that's isolated from the default Python env. This +environment will reside in a directory called vsperfenv in $HOME. + You will need to activate the virtual environment every time you start a new shell session. To activate, simple run: .. code:: bash - scl enable python33 bash - cd $HOME/vsperfenv - source bin/activate + $ scl enable python33 bash + $ cd $HOME/vsperfenv + $ source bin/activate -------------- @@ -47,3 +52,4 @@ running any of the above. For example: export https_proxy=proxy.mycompany.com:123 .. _a link: http://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python33/ +.. _virtualenv: https://virtualenv.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ |