zope/plone breaks on dapper drake

Saint Brendan, Patron Saint of NavigatorsLast week I quite thoroughly blew up the Ubuntu installation on my test server. This was after repeatedly taking various approaches to installing Zope/Plone on Dapper Drake (both by apt-get and Synaptic installer) and getting the same I/O error over and over and over and over and over…

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

Meanwhile, threads on the Ubuntu Forum point to a bug in Dapper Drake that makes it seriously difficult to set up Zope/Plone.

At this juncture, I resolved to upgrade from Drake to Eft, since I did not have much to lose. Unfortunately the Eft upgrade broke my ColdFusion install as well as several other packages.

So now it’s time for a clean install of Edgy Eft and a prayer to Saint Brendan, the Patron Saint of Navigators.
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More at the Ubuntu Forum on Zope Plone:

2 Comments »

  1. Kevin(Former Weblion) said,

    January 25, 2007 @ 12:58 am

    found this searching for something totally different and couldn’t resist
    IIRC

    apt-get install zlib1g zlib1g-dev

    build zope from source…not hard
    ./configure
    make
    make install
    they must have built zope without the zlib1g packages

    Cheers :-)

  2. rpruyne said,

    October 8, 2007 @ 8:18 am

    Thank you, Kevin. As of this writing (October 2007) anyone looking to install Zope/Plone on Ubuntu should have upgraded to Fawn a while ago. I also recommend either using Plone’s Unified Installer, http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/installing-plone-3-with-the-unified-installer, or the Debian Install instructions to be found here: https://weblion.psu.edu/trac/weblion/wiki/InstallPloneOnDebian. I’ve had zero problems using the Unified Installer on Ubuntu Fawn.

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