> I tried installing the latest svn release of freevo on my home media
> server (currently on 1.6.2) and checked out the wiki page on getting it
> installed for testing purposes..
>
> Few items.
>
> 1. Kaa - For X reasons, I cant get this thing to be installed into the
> specified prefix. (Freevo setup will not be able to locate kaa.) Ended
> up have to install it as system wide then freevo will be able to find
> it.
Did you set PYTHONPATH to point to the location of kaa?
It's fine installing kaa into the site-packages as it is a library of
modules and is not used by anything else so there is no conflict.
> 2. Freevo, during the install stage, where it's checking for needed
> dependencies, it will complain that the html docs/howto are not
> installable/found and exit. This is after doing ./autogen.sh nodocs.
> I found out that it's because of a missing docbook2html binary, which I
> didn't want to install because it pulls in a lot of other unneeded
> dependencies.
>
> In the end, I commented out
>
> os.path.walk('./Docs/installation', docbook_finder, data_files)
> os.path.walk('./Docs/plugin_writing', docbook_finder, data_files)
>
> the above 2 lines which then proceeded normally.
It is actually saying that these files do not exist, the correct solution
is to copy the html docs from 1.6.3 to your svn Docs directory.
> Note : For Y reasons, it X won't come back up when I do a freevo -fs on
> the test directory. Have not troubleshoot it much yet..
>
> Just thought I'll let you guys know.
Duncan
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