Installation guide

Install Python

OpenTAXII works with both latest Python version (3.4) and version 2.7. You can install Python with your operating system’s package manager or download it directly here.

You can verify that Python is installed by typing python from your shell; you should see something like:

$ python
Python 2.7.8 (default, Oct 19 2014, 16:02:00)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.54)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

Install Cabby

To sandbox the project and protect system-wide python it is recommended to install Cabby into a virtual environment (virtualenv):

Create a virtual environment named venv:

$ virtualenv venv

Where venv is a directory to place the new environment.

Activate this environment:

$ . venv/bin/activate
(venv) $

You can now install the latest Cabby release from the Python Package Index (PyPI) using pip:

(venv) $ pip install cabby

Note

Since Cabby has libtaxii as a dependency, the system libraries libtaxii requires need to be installed. Check libtaxii documentation for the details.

To install Cabby from source files: download a tarball, unpack it and install it manually with python setup.py install.

Versioning

Releases of Cabby are given major.minor.revision version numbers, where major and minor correspond to the roadmap EclecticIQ has. The revision number is used to indicate a bug fix only release.

Next steps

Continue with the User guide to see how to use Cabby.