Setting up the environment for this tutorial

Cloning and setting up this repository

Clone this repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/brunorijsman/yang-tutorial.git
Cloning into 'yang-tutorial'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 32, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (32/32), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (21/21), done.
remote: Total 32 (delta 8), reused 29 (delta 5), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (32/32), 848.05 KiB | 1.58 MiB/s, done.

In the remainder of this tutorial I will assume that you cloned the repository into your home directory. If not, replace ~ with whatever directory you cloned the repository into.

Setting up a python virtual environment

Make sure that we have version 3.8 or higher of Python installed:

$ python3 --version
Python 3.8.10

Create a Python virtual environment:

$ cd yang-tutorial
$ python3 -m venv venv

Activate the Python virtual environment:

$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv) $

Install the Python dependencies:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Collecting lxml==4.8.0
  Using cached lxml-4.8.0-cp38-cp38-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_24_x86_64.whl (6.9 MB)
Collecting pyang==2.5.2
  Using cached pyang-2.5.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (595 kB)
Installing collected packages: lxml, pyang
Successfully installed lxml-4.8.0 pyang-2.5.2