[Zope3-Users] Problem: "Could not locate Zope software installation!"

[Jim Washington]

Ronald L Chichester wrote:

> I downloaded ZopeX3-3.0.1 and Zope3.1 (final).  The ./configure | make 
> | make install (as root) went without a hitch.  However, when I went 
> to make an instance (with either 3.0.1 or 3.1) I got a "Could not 
> locate Zope software installation!"
>
> In both cases, I used the default settings (i.e., Zope was made in 
> /usr/local/Zopex/
>
> I used /usr/local/ZopeX3x/bin/mkzopeinstance -u manager:secret
>
> ... and got the error message.
>
> I've seen this before in the bug track list, but has anyone got a 
> workaround?  I'm using Zope on Gentoo Linux (2.6.13-r2 kernel) with 
> python 2.3.5 and and GCC 3.4.4.
>
Just a guess.  Do you have net-zope/zopeinterface installed?  It
provides a package named "zope" in /usr/lib/[system
python]/site-packages.  This might make weird namespace issues.

-Jim Washington