Setting Up the Rucio Client

Install via pip

When pip is available, the distribution can be downloaded from the Rucio PyPI server and installed in one step:

pip install rucio-clients

This command will download the latest version of Rucio and install it to your system. The dependencies are listed in the file requirements.txt and will be pulled in as necessary.

Upgrade via pip

To upgrade via pip:

pip install --upgrade rucio-clients

Install via pip and virtualenv

To install the Rucio clients in an isolated virtualenv environment:

wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/pypa/virtualenv/master/virtualenv.py
python virtualenv.py rucio
source rucio/bin/activate.csh
pip install rucio-clients
export RUCIO_HOME=`pwd`/rucio/

Installing using setup.py

Otherwise, you can install from the distribution using the setup.py script:

python setup.py install