realnet 0.0.45

Realnet command line interface

realnet

How to run on linux/windows using pip (deployed version)

The realnet-server needs to be configured and running. How to do that can be found in the readme.md for https://github.com/virtual-space/realnet-server/

• Create a folder and go to it.

(linux)
mkdir realnet
cd realnet

create a .env file with the following content

REALNET_TOKEN='[generated by realnet auth token]'
REALNET_CLIENT_KEY='[Retrieve from database app table]'
REALNET_CLIENT_SECRET='[Retrieve from database app table]'
REALNET_URL='[get from realnet-server serve or use 'https://api.realnet.io' for production]'

• run the following commands

(linux or Powershell)
python -m venv venv
. ./venv/bin/activate
pip install realnet

(Windows)
python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate
pip install realnet

The realnet CLI needs a valid, unexpired token to interface with realnet-server. Run the following and paste the output token into the realnet .env. Use the username and password you defined in the realnet-server .env. Make sure to use "" around variables on Windows.

realnet auth token --username="[]" --password="[]"

• finally to start realnet and see available commands, run the following command:

realnet -h

How to run on linux from source

The realnet server needs to be configured and running. How to do that can be found in the readme.md for https://github.com/virtual-space/realnet-server/

• Clone out the repo

git clone https://github.com/virtual-space/realnet/realnet.git

• Go to the repo root folder

cd realnet

• In the repo root folder create an .env file with the following content:

REALNET_TOKEN='[generated by realnet auth token]'
REALNET_CLIENT_KEY='[Retrieve from database app table]'
REALNET_CLIENT_SECRET='[Retrieve from database app table]'
REALNET_URL='[get from realnet-server serve or use 'https://api.realnet.io' for production]'

• run command

chmod 700 .env

• run the following commands:

python -m venv venv
. ./venv/bin/activate
python setup.py install

The realnet CLI needs a valid, unexpired token to interface with realnet-server. Run the following and paste the output token into the realnet .env. Use the username and password you defined in the realnet-server .env.

realnet auth token --username='[]' --password='[]'

• finally to start realnet and see available commands, run the following command:

realnet -h

installation notes (python setup.py | pip install)

You may need to manually install some dependencies. The install command should tell you what is missing.

The Cryptography module takes a long time to compile.

Below is an incomplete list of installation instructions for dependencies. If you're not doing this on a fresh installation, you should run python setup.py install or pip install realnet to see what you need first.

• Inside VENV

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install setuptools-rust

• Outside VENV postgreSQL (pg_config is missing)

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install postgresql

c/c++ compilers (gcc/g++ is missing)

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential

Optional Man pages

sudo apt-get install manpages-dev

To test the C & C++ compiler installations run these commands:

gcc --version
g++ --version

bluetooth dev tools (bluetooth/bluetooth.h is missing)

sudo apt-get install libbluetooth-dev