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

[will kahn-g. <wi...@bl...>]

On 01/28/2010 03:51 PM, Chris G wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:30:29PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
>> 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
>
> ... and I think I have maybe found the problem or at least some of it.
>
> After a clean installation if I run 'pyblosxom-cmd create<dir>' in
> the installed pyblosxom directory (i.e. the directory where there is a
> data directory and the Pyblosxom directory) then the create works, but
> if I run it anywhere els it fails with the error I reported.

Ahh...  that might be a bug in the setup.py code.  I just ditched the 
MANIFEST.in file and maybe that's still needed.  I'll take a look at it 
tomorrow.

/will