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

[mt]

thanks tres, andreas and wolfram for helping me out!
i will give it a try!

greetings
matthias

Tres Seaver wrote:
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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.