Hi all, first: thanks for all the answers and hints! I know that it's tiring for more experienced users sometimes to see the newbies flocking in and asking questions which answers seem to be too obvious to even mention.
~ > I installed zope and apache today on a linux box and got ~ > it working together. Now I would like to integrate Sybase ~ > as an external database. I installed Sybase and then ~ > installed the Sybase DA from here: ~ > ~ > http://www.zope.org/Products/DA/SybaseDA/
As another novice probably at about the same level as Andrea, I think that the question was probably "How do you get to the point where the SybaseDA connection appears when you try to add a database connection?"
exactly, that was the problem I had! I couldn't find any hint about a sybase product in zope after installing the adapter and restarting zope. It took me one day and then I found the problem: There are two zope folders on my linux machine: /var/zope and /usr/share/zope. I had installed the database adapter into the wrong directory (and I really wonder why there are two --> probably another newbie problem). After installing the adapter in the right directory and restarting zope everything worked and the sybase database connection appeared in the zope products category.
(mis?)understood 'installed the SybaseDA' as, it is showing up in the control panel, and isn't broken.
The problem was that it didn't show up at all, whether broken or not. Anyway, thanks to all a lot so far. Hope I can progess with my Zope experience fast enough to give some help back soon as well! Kind regards, Andrea -- Andrea Hoffmann - Webmaster - andrea@girigiri.co.jp Party & Event Manager: http://www.machiawase.com/ i-mode: http://www.machiawase.com/i/index.html