Installation

Install Python

OpenTAXII works with Python version 2.7 and version 3.4. You can download Python here or install it with your operating system’s package manager.

You can verify that Python is installed by typing python or python3 in your shell. You should see something like:

$ python3
Python 3.4.3 (default, Mar 23 2015, 04:19:36)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

Install OpenTAXII

To sandbox the project and protect system-wide python it is recommended to install OpenTAXII into a virtual environment (virtualenv).

Create a virtual environment named venv:

$ virtualenv venv

Where venv is a directory to place the new environment

Activate this environment:

$ . venv/bin/activate
(venv) $

Now install the latest OpenTAXII release from the Python Package Index (PyPI) using pip:

(venv) $ pip install opentaxii

Without the virtual environment it’s just:

$ pip install opentaxii

Note

Since OpenTAXII has libtaxii as a dependency, the system libraries libtaxii will be installed. Check libtaxii documentation for the details.

To install OpenTAXII from source files: download tarball, unpack it and install it manually with:

$ python setup.py install

Versioning

Releases of OpenTAXII are given major.minor.revision version numbers, where major and minor correspond to the roadmap EclecticIQ has. The revision number is used to indicate a bug fix only release.

Next steps

Continue to Configuration page to learn how to configure OpenTAXII.