[Erp5-users] Installing on Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04

[jp at nexedi.com]

Hi,

It is really important to make clear that the installation procedure should be based on this buildout :
  http://svn.erp5.org/erp5/trunk/buildout/

This buildout can generate packages for 5 distributions (Mandriva, Fedora, OpenSuSE, Debian, Ubuntu). It is increasingly tested with automatic tests which build the package and run some functional tests. It provides a good default configuration for all the external layer of ERP5 (openoffice, Apache, oood, etc.). 

By using it, so many problems are solved nowadays. We took this approach last year after finding out that some developers, who did not like to use Mandriva packages, had issues with community made .deb packages: missing files or dependencies. We also saw problems related to some distributions that provide a patched python which does not even pass the standard python test suite. Since we neither had time to fix python in some distributions nor to maintain 5 sets of packages, we did this universal buildout.

With this buildout, which includes its own python, we have a path towards a reliable and distribution independent installation. It is quite easy to derive project specific buildouts which automate deployment, creation of instances and support sophisticated code sharing. It is also quite easy to port it to other distributions. 

The kinds of contributions which are really useful are: patches, support of other distributions, tests, HowTo (in erp5.org).

Regards,

JPS.

> 
> Hi,
> 
> In fact we check it and we fix it in a similar way you did/suggested in 
> your mail,
> thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> I reviewed and tested myself this tutorial on Ubuntu 10.04 (I tested twice):
> 
>   - http://www.erp5.com/download/linux/Howto-Install.erp5.From.Buildout
> 
> I will mark this howto http://www.erp5.org/HowToUseBuildout deprecated
> to prevent people use this tutorial and have problems to install.
> 
> Regards,
> Rafael Monnerat
> 
> PS.: The buildout used into http://www.erp5.org/HowToUseBuildout and 
> http://www.erp5.com/download/linux/Howto-Install.erp5.From.Buildout
> are not the same.
> 
> On 02-09-2010 15:31, Boris Kocherov wrote:
> > This problem is fixed in our version of buildout on
> > http://www.raskon.org/trac/erp5/wiki/Erp5Ubuntu
> >
> > I wrote in mailing list
> > http://mail.nexedi.com/pipermail/erp5-dev/2010-August/002450.html
> > so Nexedi could check it's buildout.  Evidently they didn't...
> >
> > On 02/09/10 18:52, Kurt Miebach wrote:
> >    
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am installing ERP5 from svn on Ubuntu server 9.10 - 64 bit,
> >> following this guide closely:
> >>
> >> http://www.erp5.org/HowToUseBuildout
> >>
> >> I have also set up advanced configuration options using the download cache.
> >>
> >> I could not get any further than this:
> >>
> >> ad at erp5kk:~/erp5.buildout$ python2.4 bootstrap/bootstrap.py
> >> Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.4/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.4.egg
> >> Creating directory '/home/ad/erp5.buildout/bin'.
> >> Creating directory '/home/ad/erp5.buildout/parts'.
> >> Creating directory '/home/ad/.buildout/eggs'.
> >> Creating directory '/home/ad/erp5.buildout/develop-eggs'.
> >> Getting distribution for 'setuptools'.
> >> Got setuptools 0.6c12dev-r84273.
> >> Getting distribution for 'zc.buildout==1.4.4'.
> >> Got zc.buildout 1.4.4.
> >> Generated script '/home/ad/erp5.buildout/bin/buildout'.
> >>
> >> ad at erp5kk:~/erp5.buildout$ python2.4 bin/buildout
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>    File "bin/buildout", line 17, in ?
> >>      import zc.buildout.buildout
> >> ImportError: No module named zc.buildout.buildout
> >>
> >> I tried installation on Ubuntu 10.04 64bit before already, I had to
> >> install python 2.4 by hand, but the result of the buildout was
> >> similar.
> >>
> >> If there is no simple fix for 09.10 I would prefer going with an older
> >> ubuntu version, where it works smoothly, if I knew which version that
> >> would be.
> >>
> >> Thank you for any help
> >> Kurt Miebach
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> >>      
> >    
> 
> 
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