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How can I install google's appengine in Ubuntu 12.04?

Is there an easy method to do install with all dependencies? Is there a PPA?

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this link is quite good. – hayden Apr 19 '12 at 22:39
but the link above is rather involved... surely there is a nicer way? – hayden Apr 20 '12 at 13:50
The instructions on the google site work just fine. Why do we need to duplicate it? Anyhow the whole thing has a series of gengine specific dependencies that are local to only gengine. It's structured so that you can add additional "bundles" and upload them to your instance. Unless google is maintaining the PPA, anyone else doing it would just be playing catchup and adding massive complexity for something that's designed to run out of a single directory. There's no point. – ppetraki Sep 2 '12 at 14:05

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Install Google App Engine

Extract the zipped file either use the context menu to extract files into a folder. After you finish extracting, you will get a folder google_appengine which has all the necessary files to develop application. To complete the installation and to able to run Google App Engine, we must specify its path definition. You can specify the PATH definition in the terminal only using

export PATH=$PATH:/home/your_user_name/Desktop/google_appengine/

But path specified using export command is valid as long as you are inside the current terminal window. That means as soon as you close the window, the path specified becomes invalid. To specify the path in the system, you have to edit

/home/your_user_name/.profile

and specify the path there.

All set & done, now you have the shiny Google App Engine up & running its time to do the real job. Let us make an ‘Hello World’ application for Google App Engine, using you own Linux Box – excited ? To start using app engine, you have to register an application at

http://appspot.com

That requires your usual Google Account’s credentials and the environment is ready to be used instantly.

this tutorial describes how to develop and deploy a simple Python 2.7 project with Google App Engine.

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstartedpython27/

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Here are the steps I followed to get GAE 1.7.1 working on Ubuntu 12.04.

  • open a terminal Ctr-t and make sure you are in the home directory.
  • create a project folder. (I used google_projects)
  • cd into the project folder
  • download GAE 1.7.1
  • unzip the file
  • delete the zip. (optional)

Here are the terminal commands for the steps above:

    cd ~
    mkdir google_projects
    cd google_projects
    wget -O gae.zip http://googleappengine.googlecode.com/files/google_appengine_1.7.1.zip
    unzip gae.zip
    rm gae.zip

Now its time to create the project and start the development server.

    cp -r google_appengine/new_project_template testapp
    python google_appengine/dev_appserver.py testapp

The first line simply copies and renames the new_project_template folder into google_proects as testapp. The last line starts the development server. You can stop it with Ctr-C.

With the development server up and running you can view testapp at localhost:8080. You should see "Hello world!".

If you get stuck I have written a tutorial that covers these steps in more detail. All the best.

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It would be great if you can add the steps here instead of just pasting the link. But still you can mention the link as source: johnogrady blog – devav2 Sep 1 '12 at 21:08
Your right. I've updated my post. – jwogrady Sep 2 '12 at 13:21
thanks @jwogrady – devav2 Sep 2 '12 at 13:25

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