Installing¶
Installing thumbor is really easy because it supports the distutils form of packaging (http://docs.python.org/distutils/setupscript.html).
Warning
Thumbor v7.0.0 and later only supports python 3.7+. This change was important to improve our codebase and ensure it’s easier to change in future releases. More breaking changes will come, but we do not anticipate any as big as this one. Please refer to release notes for details on how to upgrade.
Stable¶
The latest stable version of thumbor is always published in the Python
Package Index (http://pypi.python.org/pypi), so it can be easily
installed using pip install thumbor
or easy_install thumbor
.
Ubuntu/Debian using aptitude (apt-get)¶
There’s now an officially supported ppa for thumbor if you are using aptitude.
To install using aptitude, add the following lines to your sources list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/thumbor/ppa/ubuntu <your release> main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/thumbor/ppa/ubuntu <your release> main
If you are using ubuntu 12.10 (quantal), it would be:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/thumbor/ppa/ubuntu quantal main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/thumbor/ppa/ubuntu quantal main
Or you can add the repository to you sources list via the command line:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thumbor/ppa
After that just update your sources:
sudo aptitude update
And install using plain old aptitude install:
sudo aptitude install thumbor
A service will be created for you that gets started when the machine starts up (using upstart).
By default thumbor will be disabled. Open /etc/default/thumbor
and
change (or remove) the flag enabled
to 1
or use the command
sudo service thumbor start force=1
(force_start=1 for
thumbor<3.7.0) to temporarily start thumbor. You can also override other
defaults like the location of the configuration file by editing
/etc/default/thumbor
.
The configuration for thumbor will be at /etc/thumbor.conf
and the
security key at /etc/thumbor.key
. There will be one instance running
at http://localhost:8888
.
If you want to run many instances of thumbor you’ll need to run it in many ports. That means you’ll need to use some form of load balancing (NGINX, Apache, Varnish, Haproxy, etc).
Running many instances of thumbor is as simple as editing
/etc/default/thumbor
and changing the port
key to as many ports
as you want, comma-separated: port=8888,8889,8890
(for
thumbor>3.7.0).
If you need more detail head to https://launchpad.net/~thumbor/+archive/ppa.
From the source of a stable release¶
Download the latest stable source-code version here on GitHub or PyPI and decompress it.
In the path you decompressed, execute pip install .
or
python setup.py install
.
From the latest version of the source¶
Clone thumbor’s repository and install it using one of the following:
pip install git+git://github.com/thumbor/thumbor.git
or
git clone git://github.com/thumbor/thumbor.git
cd thumbor
python setup.py install