Installation Tutorial for Linux

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#1

As Docker, Python and the IB Gateway (Java) run without problem also under Linux, it should be no problem to write an Installation Tutorial also for Linux. Thanks!

#2

@Costantino no problem!

We've posted a tutorial for Linux: Installation Tutorial for Linux

#3

Great! Thank you very much! I'll try to install tomorrow.

#4

The installation worked very well untill I tried to start the "IB Gateway".

After having executed "quantrocket launchpad start --wait", the following error occurs:
ibg1:
error: "gateway still not running after a reasonable wait:

IBController is running but IB Gateway is not accepting connections. IBController log output is below:
    at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.initDisplay(Native Method)
    at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.access$200(X11GraphicsEnvironment.java:65)
    at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment$1.run(X11GraphicsEnvironment.java:115)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.<clinit>(X11GraphicsEnvironment.java:74)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264)
    at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.createGE(GraphicsEnvironment.java:103)
    at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment(GraphicsEnvironment.java:82)
    at sun.awt.X11.XToolkit.<clinit>(XToolkit.java:126)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264)
    at java.awt.Toolkit$2.run(Toolkit.java:860)
    at java.awt.Toolkit$2.run(Toolkit.java:855)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(Toolkit.java:854)
    at ibcontroller.IBController.createToolkitListener(Unknown Source)
    at ibcontroller.IBController.load(Unknown Source)
    at ibcontroller.IBGatewayController.main(Unknown Source)
15:54:20:849 IBController: IBControllerServer listening on address: e209796760a9/172.18.0.8 port: 7460"  

 status: error

I use Fedora 27 in a Virtual Box VM.

If I try with "quantrocket launchpad gui" the windows in the browser is black (no IB Gateway Mask).

Thanks!

#5

Problem solved!
I restarted the VM, then tried with

quantrocket launchpad stop --wait
quantrocket launchpad start --wait

and now it's everything fine!

After the first stop, occurred this error:

quantrocket_launchpad_1|500 Server Error: INTERNAL SERVER ERROR for url: http://houston/ibg1/gateway
quantrocket_launchpad_1|b'{"status": "error", "error": "IBController is running but IB Gateway is not accepting connections. IBController log output is below:\\n16:59:41:386 IBController: IBControllerServer received command: STOP\\nException in thread \\"pool-1-thread-2\\" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class sun.awt.X11.XToolkit\\n\\tat java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)\\n\\tat java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264)\\n\\tat java.awt.Toolkit$2.run(Toolkit.java:860)\\n\\tat java.awt.Toolkit$2.run(Toolkit.java:855)\\n\\tat java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)\\n\\tat java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(Toolkit.java:854)\\n\\tat java.awt.Toolkit.getEventQueue(Toolkit.java:1734)\\n\\tat java.awt.EventQueue.isDispatchThread(EventQueue.java:1043)\\n\\tat javax.swing.SwingUtilities.isEventDispatchThread(SwingUtilities.java:1361)\\n\\tat ibcontroller.DefaultMainWindowManager.getMainWindow(Unknown Source)\\n\\tat ibcontroller.DefaultMainWindowManager.getMainWindow(Unknown Source)\\n\\tat ibcontroller.StopTask.stop(Unknown Source)\\n\\tat ibcontroller.StopTask.run(Unknown Source)\\n\\tat ibcontroller.CommandDispatcher.handleStopCommand(Unknown Source)\\n\\tat ibcontroller.CommandDispatcher.run(Unknown Source)\\n\\tat java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)\\n\\tat java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)\\n\\tat java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)\\n"}\n'
  quantrocket_houston_1|172.18.0.1 - - [16/Feb/2018:17:00:19 +0000] "DELETE /launchpad/gateways?wait=True HTTP/1.1" 499 0 "-" "python-requests/2.18.4"
  quantrocket_houston_1|172.18.0.7 - - [16/Feb/2018:17:00:20 +0000] "POST /flightlog/handler HTTP/1.1" 200 5 "-" "-"
quantrocket_flightlog_1|2018-02-16 17:00:20 quantrocket.ibg1: WARNING ibg1 didn't stop when asked nicely, so forcing it to stop
     quantrocket_ibg1_1|[spooler /var/tmp/uwsgi/spool/stop pid: 11] done with task uwsgi_spoolfile_on_e209796760a9_12_3_1899817870_1518800374_879295 after 47 seconds
     quantrocket_ibg1_1|
     quantrocket_ibg1_1|+==============================================================================
     quantrocket_ibg1_1|+
     quantrocket_ibg1_1|+                       **** An error has occurred ****
     quantrocket_ibg1_1|+
     quantrocket_ibg1_1|+                     Please look in the diagnostics file 
     quantrocket_ibg1_1|+                   mentioned above for further information
     quantrocket_ibg1_1|+
     quantrocket_ibg1_1|+==============================================================================
     quantrocket_ibg1_1|
     quantrocket_ibg1_1|Stopping x11vnc.
     quantrocket_ibg1_1|Stopping virtual X frame buffer: Xvfb.
     quantrocket_ibg1_1|Stopping websockify.

but now the problem disappeared.