Anki Sync Server

A personal Anki sync server (so you can sync against your own server rather than AnkiWeb).

It also includes a RESTful API, so that you could implement your own AnkiWeb if wanted.

Installing

Instructions for installing and running AnkiServer:

First, you need to install "virtualenv". If your system has easy_install, this is just a matter of:

$ easy_install virtualenv

If your system doesn't have easy_install, I recommend getting it!
Next, you need to create a Python environment for running AnkiServer and install some of the dependencies we need there:

$ virtualenv AnkiServer.env $ AnkiServer.env/bin/easy_install webob PasteDeploy PasteScript sqlalchemy simplejson
Download and install libanki. You can find the latest release of Anki here:

http://code.google.com/p/anki/downloads/list

Look for a *.tgz file with a Summary of "Anki Source". At the time of this writing that is anki-2.0.11.tgz.

Download this file and extract.

Then either:

a. Run the 'make install', or

b. Copy the entire directory to /usr/share/anki
Make the egg info files (so paster can see our app):

$ AnkiServer.env/bin/python setup.py egg_info
Copy the example.ini to production.ini and edit for your needs.
Then we can run AnkiServer like so:

$ AnkiServer.env/bin/paster serve production.ini