Re: [pyblosxom-users] A returning user - having installation problems

[Chris G <cl...@is...>]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 02:16:14PM -0500, will kahn-greene wrote:
> On 01/28/2010 02:03 PM, Chris G wrote:
> > I used pyblosxom for a while around version 1.3 (I think) and I'm now
> > back trying it again.  I'm not doing too well at the moment. I'm
> > trying to install the 1.5 beta version on ubuntu 9.10 server.
> >
> > So, I'll run through what I have done:-
> >
> > Get the code
> >
> >      svn co https://pyblosxom.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pyblosxom/trunk/pyblosxom/ pyblosxom
> >
> > As root, run the install
> >
> >      python setup.py install
> 
> That should have installed Python as a site-package and the 
> pyblosxom-cmd command in bin.
> 
Yes, it has, well nearly:-

	chris@server:~$ which pyblosxom-cmd
	/usr/local/bin/pyblosxom-cmd
	chris@server:~$ 

> After doing that, to create a blog you do:
> 
>     % pyblosxom-cmd create <dir>
> 
> and that's it.  PyBlosxom builds the directory structure for your blog 
> with flavour files and pyblosxom.cgi and config.py files.
> 
Yes, that's where I'm getting the error I was reporting:-

    chris@server:~$ pyblosxom-cmd create xxx
    pyblosxom-cmd version 1.5 dev
    Creating '/home/chris/xxx'...
    Creating '/home/chris/xxx/entries'...
    Creating '/home/chris/xxx/plugins'...
    Creating file '/home/chris/xxx/config.py'...
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/local/bin/pyblosxom-cmd", line 5, in <module>
	pkg_resources.run_script('pyblosxom==1.5', 'pyblosxom-cmd')
      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 448,
    in run_script
	self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1166,
    in run_script
	execfile(script_filename, namespace, namespace)
      File
    "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyblosxom-1.5-py2.6.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/pyblosxom-cmd",
    line 25, in <module>
	sys.exit(command_line_handler("pyblosxom-cmd", sys.argv))
      File
    "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyblosxom-1.5-py2.6.egg/Pyblosxom/commandline.py",
    line 431, in command_line_handler
	return f(command, argv)
      File
    "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyblosxom-1.5-py2.6.egg/Pyblosxom/commandline.py",
    line 268, in create_blog
	_copyfile(source, d, "config.py", fix=True)
      File
    "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyblosxom-1.5-py2.6.egg/Pyblosxom/commandline.py",
    line 248, in _copyfile
	fp = open(os.path.join(frompath, fn), "r")
    IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyblosxom-1.5-py2.6.egg/Pyblosxom/data/config.py'

> Sounds like you should read through the README and INSTALL files.  There 
> are a lot of changes in PyBlosxom 1.5 specifically to make it easy to 
> install.
> 
I think I have followed the README and INSTALL.

Looking harder at the above error it seems as if there should be a
config.py in the installation somewhere that can't be found.

-- 
Chris Green