Installing Fabric On Windows (Error No Module Called Readline)

Question

I\'m trying to use the Fabric 0.1.1 deploy tool (http://docs.fabfile.org/) on Windows and we\'re running into an issue with the readline mo

Answer 1

Following these steps exactly worked for me:

1) Installed using the MSI installer for x86 from here.

2) Installed in the default C:\Python27 directory.

3) Create a new directory: C:\Python27\Scripts

4) Added C:\Python27 and C:\Python27\Scripts to the system path:

5) Download the distribute_setup.py from here into C:\Python27\Scripts

6) Open a command line, navigate to C:\Python27\Scripts, run: 'python distribute_setup.py'

7) now run 'easy_install pip'

8) now run 'pip install fabric'

9) You should get an error saying PyCrypto couldn't install. You can download the pre-build Windows binary from here. Run this to install PyCrypto.

10) run 'pip install fabric' again and it should say everything is installed.

11) in a different directory (let's say c:\dev\hello) create a fabfile.py and add the following code:

def hello(name="world"):
    print("Hello %s!" % name)

12) cd to this directory and run 'fab hello:working'. You should see output say

Hello working!

Done.