[Zope] Newbie install help needed !!!!!

Jim Harris adminjim@coe.memphis.edu
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:39:36 -0600


Hope you don't mind me butting in, but if you just want to check out Zope
very quickly, run the Windows version on 95/98/NT.  It was nothing to
install, and I was playing with Zope two minutes after downloading it.
Python is also a snap to insall on Windows.

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Schruefer <tschruefer@mail.howard.k12.md.us>
To: Zope <zope@zope.org>
Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Newbie install help needed !!!!!


>
>
>>Robert OConnor - rocon@pivot.net on 3/18/99 8:13 AM wrote:
>
>>Hi Thomas,
>>
>
>>***This is were you got stuck***
>>
>>./install
>>
>>***No switches!!!
>>
>
>Ok, unstuck, whoops, stuck again.
>
>I guess I have to do this in little baby steps.  Some sort of initiation
>ritual, I think. ;-)  Now I am getting the error message below even
>though python is clearly in the bin directory under the Zope install
>directory.
>
>"./install: bin/python: No such file or directory"
>
>This is the shell install script:
>
>
>***
>#!/bin/sh
>
># Get script dir
>if [ -n "`echo $0|sed -e 's%[^/]%%'`" ]; then
>  PYTHONHOME=`echo $0 | sed -e 's%/[a-z.]*$%%'`
>  cd $PYTHONHOME
>else
>  PYTHONHOME=.
>fi
>
>export PYTHONHOME
>bin/python inst/product_install.py $*
>***
>
>A little different than the PERL I am used to seeing, but I've managed to
>make heads-and-tails of the thing.
>
>
>- I checked the location of python in the Zope install dir, ok.
>- I checked to ensure that the sh shell was in the bin/ dir, ok.
>
>
>Next up, re-upload the Zope file and check for a corrupted archive.
>
>
>Any other ideas ?
>
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