how to properly install on server

[lee2sman]

Pardon this beginner-level question.

I'm created a small tilde server and a bit unsure the install process. Does botany get placed inside a shared directory that all users have access to? or is there some other system i should be setting up? Perhaps more explicit install instructions can be added to the README.md (I'd be happy to contribute if i knew the answer)

[lee2sman]

I did, but I have since closed that server as it was for a temporary group. I stupidly forgot to document my exact process, so I'm working from memory, but here is best of my knowledge:

1. create a botany user. maybe ~botanist
2. git clone this repo
3. make a shortcut that everyone on the server can run, such as creating a script file named botany in the /usr/bin/ path
4. The contents of this script is a single line that runs the botany.py script in the ~botany user's botany directory. So for example my script was /home/botanist/botany/botany.py
5. Make sure you've set permissions on botany.py so everyone can run it.

[lee2sman]

There's also a 6 year old unmerged PR with an install script worth reviewing: #23
As I don't have an active server I'm playing with now I can't test.

[lee2sman]

Ok, report back :)

[lee2sman]

Ok, yes confirming. I checked on ctrl-c.club to see if we have botany and we do and ran it and planted a seed! Output of ls -l ~/.botany for me is

-rw-rw-r-- 1 me me
when i run ls -l on another user's folder i get the exact same output.