On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:18:17 pm Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: > Hello Samps Okholm. > > Thanks for the report. > > Our apt repositories are not fully operational at this time, see > http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/DownloadDebianPackages for > details. I'm surprised that you managed to install Tahoe-LAFS at all > with "apt-get". That wiki page I just referenced suggests that you > use http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/install.html instead > of apt-get, and emphasizes that this will not in any way interfere > with your system configuration. > Zooko, tahnks for taking your time to help me.
I'll try to retrace my steps. I come from the TiddlyWiki society, where you posted a link to an announcement, which I followed to http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html. I quickly got to the link saying: install.html and it took me to http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/install.html where I found the download link (http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.5.0.zip) for the 1.5.0 release as a zipped package and downloaded that. Unzipped it to my home, CD-ed into it and executed 'python setup.py build' (python -V reports 2.5.2 btw) and something happened. Not enough apparently, because it ended with some cryptic message, which I can not replicate today, about gcc not having enough parameters. Anyway, no 'tahoe' was created in the 'bin' folder and the "install from documentation" track stopped here. > Hm, in fact from what you report it looks like you have Tahoe-LAFS > installed *not* from apt but from running either "python ./setup.py > install" or from running "easy_install allmydata-tahoe". Do you > remember which of those you tried? Yes. The 'python setup.py' way. I have never heard of 'easy_install'. > More interestingly to me, what > document did you read that made you think of trying that? Whatever > document suggested that to you, I want to find it and change it to > instead suggest that you follow the instructions in http:// > allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/install.html . I tried the zip-package/python way before the deb/apt way. > > A-ha! I think I've found it. I just removed a paragraph from the > DownloadDebianPackages page which mentioned that you could run > "python ./setup.py install" (although it wasn't exactly recommending > that you do so). Is this the paragraph that led you to do that? > > http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/DownloadDebianPackages? > action=diff&version=24 > > Do you remember exactly what steps you took? Because I don't > understand how you got /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ > allmydata_tahoe-1.5.0_r4042-py2.5.egg/ into place without also > getting a working installation of Twisted. >From the 'installDetails Wiki page (http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/InstallDetails) I found a link to the Debian/Ubuntu installation from repo page http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/DownloadDebianPackages where I grabbed info about the repositories and used Synaptic to install 'allmydata-tahoe', only, it failed to retrieve one package, namely 'allmydata-tahoe.deb'. I installed the other stuff as I thought it might help me if I went back to installing using Python, then I went to http://allmydata.org/debian/ where I found a copy of allmydata-tahoe_1.5.0-r4042_all.deb buried deep down in http://allmydata.org/debian/dists/hardy/tahoe/binary-i386/. I downloaded it, installed it and ended up with an installation that reports: "No module named python..." > > Anyway, the short answer is: follow the instructions in > install.html , do not follow any instructions from any other > document, and you should be fine. > Here comes the funny bit.... This morning I tried again, keeping everything on my 'Desktop', download zip-package, unzip, open 'Terminal', 'CD allmydata-tahoe-1.5.0', 'python setup.py build', lots of output to terminal, all looking well and good and mostly about creating and copying. Trying to get version of 'tahoe' with 'bin/tahoe --version returns a lot messages, last one saying: ImportError: No module named python Sorry to be a nuisance Samps _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
