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Commit 39a76b9c authored by William Leuschner's avatar William Leuschner
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Update incorrect information in README about ksh and source

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There is currently no port for OpenBSD. Additionally, OpenBSD's security
settings require a slightly more difficult installation process.
1) Ensure that you have the Bourne Again Shell (``bash``) installed. The Korn
Shell (``ksh``), which is OpenBSD's default shell, does not support the
``source`` command necessary to activate the python virtualenv to be set up
later.
2) Create a new directory in ``/usr/local`` called ``_synapse``. Also, create a
new user called ``_synapse`` and set that directory as the new user's home.
This is required because, by default, OpenBSD only allows binaries which need
......@@ -386,9 +382,9 @@ settings require a slightly more difficult installation process.
``/usr/local``.
3) ``su`` to the new ``_synapse`` user and change to their home directory.
4) Create a new virtualenv: ``virtualenv -p python2.7 ~/.synapse``
5) Start a ``bash`` shell
6) Source the virtualenv configuration located at
``/usr/local/_synapse/.synapse/bin/activate``
``/usr/local/_synapse/.synapse/bin/activate``. This is done in ``ksh`` by
using the ``.`` command, rather than ``bash``'s ``source``.
7) Optionally, use ``pip`` to install ``lxml``, which Synapse needs to parse
webpages for their titles.
8) Use ``pip`` to install this repository: ``pip install
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