How to build a development environment from source control

This article explains the various ways you can build a development environment for EPrints source contributions. If you have a method not listed here then please add it. Instructions assume familiarity with EPrints and the command line. You can use repositories built in this way to test contributions to EPrints source before pushing them to the git remote.

Ubuntu

Take a clean ubuntu build

sudo su
apt-get install git
echo "deb http://deb.eprints.org/ nightly/
deb-src http://deb.eprints.org/ source/" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eprints.nightly.list
apt-get update
apt-get build-dep eprints