[Zope] Re: installing Zope and Python in userdir/linux

[Tres Seaver]

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Matthias Taras wrote:
| hi list,
| i am using Zope,Python and Plone for around 2 weeks now locally on an OSX
| machine. now i planned to port a rather big site to ZOPE, but i run
into the
| following problem:
| our linux machine is running trustix TSL linux, which has python 2.2.3
| installed system wide. Now, as i want to run the latest stable ZOPE
version
| and also Plone 2.0.5, i am thinking about how to proceed.
|
|
|>The recommended versions at the moment (for Plone 2.0.x)
|>are Python 2.3.3 or 2.3.4 and Zope 2.7.x
|
|
| i was wondering if it is possible to install a current Python release in a
| local user dir and run ZOPE from that custom Python version?
| any clues or instructions how to do so?

Yes it is possible -- in fact, that is the recommended way to install
Zope (depending on the vendor-supplied Python is a recipe for random
headaches later).

~ $ cd /tmp
~ $ tar xzf Python-2.3.4.tgz
~ $ cd Python-2.3.4
~ $ ./configure --prefix="/opt/zope" && make && sudo make install
~ $ cd ..
~ $ tar xzf Zope-2.7.4-0.tar.gz
~ $ cd Zope-2.7.4-0
~ $ ./configure --with-python="/opt/zope/bin/python" \
~               --prefix="/opt/zope" \
~    && make && sudo make install

Then run /opt/zope/mkzopeinstance and /opt/zope/mkzeoinstance to set up
the instance homes for Zope and ZEO.

Tres.
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