CKAN plugin dev mode and paster command error

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Hi all,

I have 2 plugin in dev mode :

1 for theming our ckan

1 for geo_view (beacause git repo is up2date against plugin pip release)

When I run a paster command :

paster --plugin=ckan tracking update -c /etc/ckan/default/production.ini

I get

ckan.plugins.core.PluginNotFoundException: geo_view

ckan.plugins.core.PluginNotFoundException: cd67_theme

So my question: what’s the way to deal with plugin in dev mode and paster command?

(may be I misunderstood ckan production and dev mode ?)

Thanks

Sylvain

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Are you sure you are using dev mode? The configuration file in development mode is usually called development.ini, but the paster command you are using is referencing production.ini.

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Tkanks herrmann, it’s the key point!
I’m working on a production env. So the question is what’s the right way to install an extension like geoview obtain by git command?
Is it:
sudo python setup.py install
Instead of:
sudo python setup.py develop

Or an other word: what’s the way to pass an exytension between dev and prod env? (which will be the case for owr for theming extension)
Sylvain

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You shouldn’t need to use sudo. You create a Python virtual environment (python -m venv env), activate it (source env/bin/activate) and then use it to install everything.

I’m not sure what is the current best practice to develop and deploy CKAN extensions, as I haven’t done so in a long time. Please check out CKAN’s Extending Guide. If you still have questions, you might want to ask about it on CKAN’s Gitter channel or the ckan-dev mailing list too, if you don’t get a reply here.