[Zope] beginners question: zope & sybase

[Andrea Hoffmann]

Hi all,

first: thanks for all the answers and hints! I know that it's 
tiring for more experienced users sometimes to see the newbies 
flocking in and asking questions which answers seem to be too 
obvious to even mention.

> > ~ > I installed zope and apache today on a linux box and got
> > ~ > it working together. Now I would like to integrate Sybase
> > ~ > as an external database. I installed Sybase and then
> > ~ > installed the Sybase DA from here:
> > ~ >
> > ~ > http://www.zope.org/Products/DA/SybaseDA/

> > As another novice probably at about the same level as 
> > Andrea, I think that the question was probably "How do 
> > you get to the point where the SybaseDA connection 
> > appears when you try to add a database connection?"

exactly, that was the problem I had! I couldn't find any 
hint about a sybase product in zope after installing the 
adapter and restarting zope. 

It took me one day and then I found the problem: There are 
two zope folders on my linux machine: /var/zope and 
/usr/share/zope. I had installed the database adapter into 
the wrong directory (and I really wonder why there are 
two --> probably another newbie problem).

After installing the adapter in the right directory and 
restarting zope everything worked and the sybase database 
connection appeared in the zope products category.

> (mis?)understood 'installed the SybaseDA' as, it is showing 
> up in the control panel, and isn't broken.

The problem was that it didn't show up at all, whether broken 
or not. 

Anyway, thanks to all a lot so far. Hope I can progess with 
my Zope experience fast enough to give some help back soon 
as well!

Kind regards,
Andrea
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