Installing Locust on Ubuntu 14.04

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python-pip
sudo apt-get install -y python-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libzmq-dev
# For testing https with strict encryption and prevent locust errors 
# https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#snimissingwarning
sudo apt-get install python-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev

sudo pip install virtualenv
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install locustio
pip install pyzmq
# For testing https with strict encryption and prevent locust errors 
# https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#snimissingwarning
pip install --upgrade ndg-httpsclient

# If you plan on spawning more than 1000 users per Locust instance, you will need to modify the following files and reboot

# Add the following lines to /etc/sysctl.conf
fs.file-max = 10000 
fs.nr_open = 10000

# Add the following lines to /etc/security/limits.conf
* soft nofile 10000
* hard nofile 10000
root soft nofile 10000
root hard nofile 10000