ckan-devstaller
Reference

Installation architecture

View a brief overview of what the installation from ckan-devstaller looks like

CKAN and extensions

The CKAN repository selected from ckan-devstaller is installed to /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan. Extensions are also installed as sibling folders. For example if ckanext-scheming is also installed:

...
...

The configuration file for CKAN is installed at /etc/ckan/default/ckan.ini:

ckan.ini
who.ini

ckan-compose

We install certain first-time install files and ckan-compose as a directory in the user's home (~) directory. For example for the user adam:

ahoy
dpp_default_config.ini
get-docker.sh
permissions.sql
...

After running ckan-devstaller you may also see many files starting with qsv and README. There are various files you can remove after running ckan-devstaller including:

  • dpp_default_config.ini
  • get-docker.sh
  • permissions.sql
  • README
  • The various qsv files

Here's a script you can run for cleanup after running ckan-devstaller:

cd ~/
rm -rf dpp_default_config.ini get-docker.sh permissions.sql README qsv*

DataPusher+

We install a compatible version of qsv with the DataPusher+ variant named qsvdp and move it to /usr/local/bin:

qsvdp

The ckanext-scheming and DataPusher+ extensions are installed in the same location as other CKAN extensions:

...
...
...