Clone this repository from github or google-code, and create a python virtual environment to run pluggdapps. This repository will provide you with,

• make setup, to setup the virtual environment for pluggdapps.
• etc/ directory that will have configuration settings for pluggdapps and its plugins.
• db/ directory to store database files used by pluggdapps and its web-applications

Original repository is maintained in mercurial and uses hg-git plugin to publish it on github.

Prerequisits to setup paenv virtual environment

• Install package python3-setuptools, sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools, this will give you the command easy_install3.
• Install pip using Python 3's setuptools, sudo easy_install3 pip, will give you the command pip-3.2 like kev's solution.
• Install virtual environment using pip-3.2 sudo pip-3.2 install virtualenv.

cd paenv
PYVER=3.2 make setup     # Use a desired python3.x version

This will create a virtual environment and install latest version of pluggdapps and related packages. A note on the directory structure,

etc/

Contains all configuration files. etc/master.ini is the master configuration file. Apart from the master configuration file, each web-application instance booted under the pluggdapps environment can have a configuration file. For instance, etc/webadmin.ini configures WebAdmin application loaded as http://localhost/webadmin.

db/

Contains database files. Pluggdapps officially depends only on linux, python-3.x and python standard library. Hence, you can expect that many applications under pluggdapps will be using sqlite3 for database and they are configured under this directory.

cache/

To be used as cache directory for templates, memoizations, etc ...

Start native HTTP server

./pa-env/bin/pa -w -c etc/master.ini serve

To learn more about the pa command try,

./pa-env/bin/pa -h

To learn more about the serve sub-command try,

./pa-env/bin/pa serve -h

Full documentation of pluggdapps and pa-script is available here.

Reference

• Latest virtual environment using python3 and pip.
• A stackoverflow thread narrating similar things.

Known issues

• Note that at-present python-3.3 may not by distributed for ubuntu, and many python packages are releasing their latest versions compatible with 3.3 because unicode syntax u'' is added back. If you come across any problems related to this post us to pluggdapps google groups.