Install Nikola Static Site Generator on Raspbian
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Last edited: $Date: 2020/12/04 16:47:00 $
Nikola Static Site Generator
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Nikola is an Open Source Static Site Generator.
Nikola offers a lot of features, can be used to
maintain a blog, or a website for personal use or
for an organisation.
Nikola is written in Python and available under the
Open Source MIT Licence.
Nikola takes input in many formats. Out of the box,
it supports reStructuredText, Markdown, IPython
(Jupyter) Notebooks and HTML, and Nikola has plugins
for many other formats.
Nikola comes with everything you need to build a
modern website: blogs (with comments, tags,
categories, archives, RSS/Atom feeds), multilingual
support, easy image galleries, and code listings.
For more information, see the Nikola
website:
https://getnikola.com.
Raspberry Pi
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The Raspberry Pi is a well known, small, low cost,
fanless, energy-efficient computer powered by a SoC.
Several Open Source Operating Systems support the
Raspberry Pi, each will give you an open and
powerful system.
There are multiple variants Raspberry Pi boards to
choose from.
For more information, see the Rapsberry Pi
website:
https://www.raspberrypi.org
Raspbian
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Raspbian is a free operating system based on Debian,
optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware.
Raspbian, being based on Debian, uses the same, well
known package manager as Debian, which makes it an
ideal introduction in using Open Source operating
system on a Single Board Computer.
For more information, see the Raspbian
website:
http://raspbian.org
Installing Nikola on Raspbian
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I was asked to help to install Nikola on a Raspberry
Pi.
For this, I used Raspbian, and downloaded the file
with the name
`2020-08-20-raspios-buster-armhf- lite.zip'.
Installing Nikola through the usual steps runs into
some problems with the Python application
"pyrsistent".
The system generates a error:
error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
I presume this has something to do with different
Python versions.
The following commands done on a pristine
2020-08-20-raspios-buster-armhf-lite installation
will install Nikola succesfully:
apt-get update
apt-get install python3 python-libxslt1 python3-pip \
python3-venv python-pil python3-zmq python3-wheel \
libopenjp2-7-dev
pip3 install -U pip setuptools wheel pyrsistent
cd
python3 -m venv nikola
cd nikola
source bin/activate
bin/python -m pip install -U "Nikola[extras]"
cd
nikola init --demo mijn-site
This will result in Nikola running on Python 3.7.
Have fun !
