Alexander N Gould wrote:

I'm trying to install the PoPy Python module on my Yellowdog Linux system (a redhat clone for PowerPC hardware). I'm sure it's a simple task, but I don't know how to do it. Any suggestions or tips? Thanks in advance.

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First make sure that pyton-devel is installed on your system. It's available at www.python.org I think. Untar PoPy-1.1.tar.gz and ZPoPyDA-0.3.tar.gz . First you have to build PoPy. On my system I had to modify the lib and include path in Setup and in PoPymodule.c Setup: *shared* PoPy PoPymodule.c -I/usr/local/pgsql/include -L/usr/local/pgsql/lib -lpr PoPymodule.c: ... #include <libpq-fe.h> #include <libpq/libpq-fs.h> ... Go on with: make -f Makefile.pre.in boot make You should now have the shared library PoPymodule.so . Copy this file to python1.5/site-packages on your system. Now you have to install zope-popyda-0.3 "make install" will place the Zope product to /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products/ZPoPyDA Just move it to the Product folder of your Zope installation. Restart Zope and it should work ;-) Take a look at the README. It describes the format of the connection string. It's different from that of PyGreSQLDA! Also make sure that you hav set proper permissions on &PGDATA/pg_hba.conf BTW after i recognized some problems using PoPy I switched back to PyGreSQLDA. 1. When I try to connect to postgres 6.4 using PoPy the connect fails postgres.log: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "transaction" 2. Whether Auto-commit mode is on or off on ZPoPyDA the new postgres 7.0 syntax "select * from foo limit 20 offset 10" returns all records of foo and not only 20 ! With PyGreSQLDA it works :-) -- _________________________________________________________ Andreas Heckel andreas@aHIT.de