[Zope] newbie help please with Postgres

[Jim Penny]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:51:56AM -0500, Mike Renfro wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:09:16AM +0100, Blue, Neil wrote:
> 
> > I have unpacked the ZpoPyDA-1.2.tar.gz and re-started zope. However I get
> > the error message:
> 
> >   File
> > /usr/local/Zope-2.3.1-linux2-x86/lib/python/Products/ZPoPyDA/PoPy_db.py,
> > line 37, in ?
> > The PoPy module is not installed
> 
> Odds are, you don't have the popy module for regular Python
> installed. In Debian, it's in the python-popy package. Don't know
> where it would be elsewhere. The ZpoPyDA is an interface from Zope to
> popy, not directly to PostgreSQL.

That is, in fact, the problem, (or Zope's python can't find popy).  
If you are doing a source install,
you need to go back to Sourceforge, http://sourceforge.net/projects/popy
pick up popy, build it and install it.

Debian packages are availalbe on the unstable and testing branches of
the distribution.

RPMs are available in the Sourceforge CVS.

Popy can be kind of tricky to install, as it requires a header that is
not distributed with the normal -dev RPM (debian is fine), and as it
must be put in a location that the python that is being used by your
Zope can find.  In particular, it is not uncommon for people who
are using the Zope.org _binary_ distribution to have trouble.
Here is would go in ZOPEHOME/python.  Normally in a FHS compliant
system, it should go into /usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages
(or something very like that), or in /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages
(or something very like that).

Jim Penny

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> 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu
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