[Zope] My Sad Tale Of Woe

[Maciej Wisniowski]

> I have backups of the Data.fs that aren't too old, but for some reason I can't get a working copy of Zope installed! 
What Zope version you used before?
As I see now you're installing 2.9.6.

> I follow the tar, configure, make, make install, make instance
> without throwing anything special at the configure,
I prefer:
as root: configure --prefix=/opt/Zope/2.9.6, make, make install
as zope: /opt/Zope/2.9.6/mkzopeinstance (there you'll create new user
and new instance)
as zope: ./zopectl start (from instance/bin)

If this works and you're able to login to ZMI, try to copy your
old data.fs to instance/var.

To add new user, stop your Zope instance and go to instance/bin/zopectl
write:
> useradd user passwd  (or adduser, I don't remember)

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Maciej Wisniowski