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

Ronald L Chichester complaw at hal-pc.org
Thu Oct 6 09:47:49 EDT 2005


On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 07:22:28 -0400
  Jim Washington <jwashin at vt.edu> wrote:
> 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.
> 

Nope.  Not this time.  For one, I've had notoriously bad luck with 
that application (I prefer to install from source myself).  Secondly, 
the package that you mentioned is masked for my architecture (~amd64).

Good thought, though.

Ron


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