[Zope] Plone/Zope on Debian Sarge

[Chris Withers]

The moral of this whole story seems to shine through:

Don't install Zope from OS packages like debian, they never get it right 
and you will just end up getting confused ;-)

cheers,

Chris

Andreas Pakulat wrote:

> On 01.Apr 2005 - 14:34:22, Peter Bittner wrote:
> 
>>Hi there!
>>
>>I am running a Debian Linux box with Debian/testing (Sarge) and I am trying to 
>>get Plone up and running. I have made a clean, new install of the whole 
>>system last week, so all packages are really up-to-date and there was no 
>>dirty installation that was updated.
>>
>>I have noticed that the Plone package on Debian is or was somewhat broken, but 
>>there was a notice about that on the Plone website (download page) which has 
>>disappeared. For me that looked like this problem was fixed by the package 
>>maintainer.
>>
>>Unfortunately still, after installing Plone (and implicitly thus Zope 2.7) 
>>Zope did not want to come up, saying:
> 
> 
> Did you read the debconf-pages that were presented to you during the
> installation of zope and plone? I guess not, because else you won't
> ask that question. Short answer: create a new Zope instance using
> mkzope2.7instance, check it's config and remove the '#' on the lines:
> 
> products /usr/lib/zope2.7/lib/python/Products
> products /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/Products
> products $INSTANCE/Products
> 
> To have Zope 2.7 find the Plone Product. The documentation of Zope and
> Plone will explain why you need to do that.
> 
> 
>>  Zope starting all instances....
>>  '*' is an old/purged instance, not started
> 
> 
> Looks like Zope2.7 finds an old 2.6 instance, but I'm not sure...
> 
> Andreas
> 

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