Re: [Boa Constr] Installing boa system-wide

[Hans-Peter J. <hp...@ur...>]

On Friday, 15. March 2002 07:10, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> 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,

First try starting boa directly from were you've installed it:
cd /usr/lib/python-2.2/site-modules/boa
python ./Boa.py

When this is working, I would create a script in /usr/local/bin:

#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/lib/python-2.2/site-modules/boa
exec python ./Boa.py

make it executable, and you're done, don't you?

Boa.py and Help.py cannot be executed directly, as long as they
contain windos line breaks...

Cheers,
  Hans-Peter