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+# Helios Election System
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+Helios is an end-to-end verifiable voting system.
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+![Travis Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/benadida/helios-server.svg?branch=master)
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-The Helios Election Server
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-LICENSE: this code is released under the GPL v3 or later.
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-NEEDS:
-- as of Helios v3.1, requires Django 1.2.5+
-
-- http://github.com/openid/python-openid
-- rabbitmq 1.8
--- http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian.html
--- update the deb source
--- apt-get install rabbitmq-server
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-- celery 2.0.2 and django-celery 2.0.2 for async jobs
--- http://celeryq.org
--- apt-get install python-setuptools
--- easy_install celery
--- easy_install django-celery
-
-- South for schema migration
--- easy_install South
-
-- django-webtest for testing
--- http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-webtest
--- easy_install webtest
--- easy_install django-webtest
-
-GETTING SOUTH WORKING ON EXISTING INSTALL
-- as of Helios v3.0.4, we're using South to migrate data models
-- if you've already loaded the data model beforehand, you need to tell South that you've migrated appropriately
-- so, if your data model is up to date with the code, do
-
-python manage.py syncdb
-
-to get the south db models set up, and then:
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-python manage.py migrate --list
-
-- if there are some unchecked migrations, and you are SURE that your database is up to date with the models (which should be the case if you're on a v3.0.x version), then do
-
-python manage.py migrate --fake