[Boa Constr] Installing boa system-wide

[Arcady G. <ag...@th...>]

Hello:

What's the preferred way to install an executable /usr/bin/boa?  I was
surprised when I didn't find it in the distribution.  Anyhow, I tried
unpacking the sources into /usr/lib/python-2.2/site-modules/boa, and
then writing a small Python wrapper, but when I "import boa.Boa", I
get the following:

,----
| Starting Boa Constructor v0.1.0-alpha
| importing wxPython
| setting user preferences
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/boa/Boa.py", line 123, in ?
|     import Preferences, About, Utils
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/boa/Preferences.py", line 50, in ?
|     shutil.copy2(os.path.join(pyPath, prefsFile), file)
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/shutil.py", line 73, in copy2
|     copyfile(src, dst)
|   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/shutil.py", line 28, in copyfile
|     fsrc = open(src, 'rb')
| IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/antipode/prefs.rc.py'
`----

The README.txt file says that

,----
| If you have an environmental variable set named HOME and the directory
| it points to contains a directory named '.boa' all preferences and config
| files will be copied to and used from this directory.
`----

But that doesn't seem to be working, since I definitely have HOME
defined, and I even created ~/.boa manually. :(  Any pointers?

Many thanks,
-- 
Arcady Genkin
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