I've just installed Plone with a view to using it to manage a website I'm developing. At this stage I feel that I'm on a very steep part of the initial learning curve and I'm hoping someone can help point me in the right direction with this problem.
I installed Zope 2.7.9 and Plone 2.1.2 on my FreeBSD 6.1 system by compiling the FreeBSD ports, then I ran /usr/local/www/Zope/bin/mkzopeinstance.py to set up a user and added a plone instance as instructed in <http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/setup-from-source>. So far so good, I was able to go to my newly created site at //localhost:8080/plone-site and start editing. With so much to learn about Plone I thought I'd start by going through Sean Kelly's "Editing with Plone" video and soon saw my first problem - When he uploaded an image it appeared as a thumbnail and he had a "transform" tab but when I do this there's neither a thumbnail nor a "transform" tab. A bit of Goggling suggested that I probably didn't have PIL so I downloaded this and installed it. I'm a total newbie to Python too so I hope I did it right, I followed the installation instructions in the README notes that came with PIL and everything ran without any error messages so I assume it's right. After restarting Zope I still didn't have the thumbnail or tab and the Zope error log was reporting that I didn't have the Python Imaging Libraries:- "2006-10-30T15:08:46 INFO(0) Archetypes [00m [01;32mProducts/Archetypes/Field.py[88]:? [00mWarning: no Python Imaging Libraries (PIL) found.Archetypes based ImageField's don't scale if neccessary." To further cloud the issue I've ended up with 2 versions of Python on my system. The FreeBSD port of Plone depends on Python 2.3.5 which was installed when I built Plone but all the other packages depending on Python use 2.4.3. In case plone was using the "other" version I installed PIL into both versions of Python but still no success. Any suggestions what I should try next? Also do I really need both versions of Python, can I uninstall 2.3.5 and get Plone to use 2.4.3? -- Mike Clarke _______________________________________________ Setup mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup
