1   OS support

Some parts are OS specific:

• the monitor server works only on Linux
• the credential server is a unix daemon but can run on windows if launched in debug mode (-d)

Under windows there is a trick to install docutils (see below), you may also rename the scripts with a .py extension.

2   Required packages

• libexpat1

• python 2.4 is required by the test runner only if you want to launch python doctest, other stuff work fine with a python 2.3.5. python 2.5 is supported with funkload > 1.6.0

• python distutils, on a Debian system:

  sudo apt-get install python-dev
  

• python xml, for example on a Debian system:

  sudo apt-get install python-xml
  

• EasyInstall, download ez_setup.py, and run it:

  cd /tmp
  wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
  sudo python ez_setup.py
  

  This will download and install the appropriate setuptools egg for your Python version.

3   Optional packages

• To produce charts : python-gdchart (0.6.1-8 is fine), on Debian:

  sudo apt-get install python-gdchart
  

  If the package is only available for python2.3 you may try to copy the gdchart.so to the python2.4/site-pacakges.

  On non Debian systems you can build the gdchart following the Francois Meehan's page.

  On Fedora FC4 (tested with python 2.3.5):

  cd /tmp
  wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python-gdchart/python-gdchart_0.6.1.orig.tar.gz
  tar xzvf python-gdchart_0.6.1.orig.tar.gz
  cd python-gdchart-0.6.1.orig/
  wget http://funkload.nuxeo.org/patch_gdc_py.diff
  wget http://funkload.nuxeo.org/patch_gdc_pie.diff
  patch -p0 < patch_gdc_py.diff
  patch -p0 < patch_gdc_pie.diff
  # change in Makefile
  # PY_INCLUDE = -I/usr/local/include/python2.0
  # to your corresponding path
  make
  # as a 'root' copy produced gdchart.so into your python's site-packages
  # directory
  

  Should work also for Fedora FC5, it requires libpng-devel and libjpeg-dev.

  No idea under windows.

• The recorder use TCPWatch which is not yet available using easy_install:

  cd /tmp
  wget http://hathawaymix.org/Software/TCPWatch/tcpwatch-1.3.tar.gz
  tar xzvf tcpwatch-1.3.tar.gz
  cd tcpwatch
  python setup.py build
  sudo python setup.py install
  

4   Installation

sudo easy_install -U funkload

sudo easy_install -f http://funkload.nuxeo.org/snapshots/ -U funkload

easy_install -eb /tmp funkload==dev

svn co http://svn.nuxeo.org/pub/funkload/trunk /tmp/funkload

cd /tmp/funkload/
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

5   Test it

Install the FunkLoad examples:

fl-install-demo

Go to the demo/xmlrpc folder then:

cd funkload-demo/xmlrpc/
make test

To test benching and report building just:

make bench

See funkload-demo/README for others examples.

6   Problems ?

• got a

  error: invalid Python installation: unable to open /usr/lib/python2.4/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
  

  Install python2.4-dev package.

• easy_install complains about conflict:

  ...
  /usr/lib/site-python/docutils
  
  Note: you can attempt this installation again with EasyInstall, and use
  either the --delete-conflicting (-D) option or the
  --ignore-conflicts-at-my-risk option, to either delete the above files
  and directories, or to ignore the conflicts, respectively.  Note that if
  you ignore the conflicts, the installed package(s) may not work.
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  error: Installation aborted due to conflicts
  

  If FunkLoad, webunit or docutils were previously installed without using EasyInstall. You need to reinstall the package that raises the conflict with the --delete-conflicting option, see easy_install documentation.

• If you still have conflict try to remove FunkLoad from your system:

  easy_install -m funkload
  rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/funkload*
  rm -rf /usr/local/funkload/
  rm /usr/local/bin/fl-*
  rm /usr/bin/fl-*
  

  then reinstall

• easy_install ends with:

  error: Unexpected HTML page found at
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net...
  

  Source Forge has changed their donwload page you need to update your setuptools:

  sudo easy_install -U setuptools
  

• Failed to install docutils 0.4 with easy_install 0.6a9 getting a:

  ...
  Best match: docutils 0.4
  Downloading http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/docutils/docutils-0.4.tar.gz?download
  Requesting redirect to (randomly selected) 'mesh' mirror
  error: No META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" found in Sourceforge page at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/docutils/docutils-0.4.tar.gz?use_mirror=mesh
  

It looks like sourceforge change their download page again :(

• download manually the docutils tar gz from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/docutils/docutils-0.4.tar.gz?download
• then sudo easy_install /path/to/docutils-0.4.tar.gz

• When testing make test return

  ### credentialctl: Stopping credential server.
  python: can't open file '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/funkload-1.2.0-py2.4.egg/funkload/credentialctl.py': [Errno 20] Not a directory
  

  Starting with FunkLoad 1.2.0 scripts are installed in /usr/bin, previously they were in /usr/local/bin, you need to remove them:

  sudo rm /usr/local/bin/fl-*
  

• No charts on your report. You need to have gdchart python module check import gdchart. See the Optional packages for help on how to install gdchart.

See README for more information about FunkLoad.

See CHANGES for information on FunkLoad packages.

See demo folder for other examples.