Installing and Testing out your own crowd-sourced App with PyBossa

Testing PyBossa with a Virtual Machine : http://docs.pybossa.com/en/latest/vagrant_pybossa.html

Install Virtualbox and Vagrant first.
#clone pybossa source in your local drive $ git clone --recursive git://github.com/PyBossa/pybossa.git #Start VM $ cd pybossa $ vagrant up

Problem : The 'vagrant up' fails on WinXP while installing 'hashicorp/precise32' dependency.

Following error message is seen : 

"The box failed to unpackage properly. Please verify that the box file you're trying to add is not corrupted and try again. The output from attempting to unpackage (if any)"
Cause :  This is caused by missing or failure in running bsdtar.exe.
For More Details see : https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/3869.
Solution:
1) Install Mingw with bsdtar.exe
2) "However, installing MinGW for the bsdtar.exe, brought up another issue.
bsdtar.exe wouldn't run because it needed 'msys-lzma-1.dll' but 'msys-lzma-5.dll' was available.
Just copied and renamed to expected filename and it worked!!"

Now precise32 installs and 'vagrant up' succeeds.

Next step
#Connect to VM $ vagrant ssh #Start Pybossa $ cd /vagrant $ source vagrant_start.sh</i>

Problem : Running the 'source vagrant_start.sh' script fails
Cause : bash requires usage of ./scriptname to execute script in current directory.
Solution : Just changing the docs line 'source vagrant_start.sh' to 'source ./vagrant_start.sh' fixes the problem.

Problem : 'source ./vagrant_start.sh' still fails
Cause : It gives errors for trailing ^M characters in the script, DOS line-feed chars.
Solution : Editing the file and removing trailing ^M characters solves the problem.

Use your web browser to browse Pybossa welcome page with this URL 'http://localhost:5000'