Martin Walsh wrote:
On 07/03/2010 10:25 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
Jeff Johnson wrote:
[snip]
http://dabodev.com/
Please check it out. And go to www.leafe.com and subscribe to the
dabo-user email list.
I would like to try out Dabo, but I don't see it in the Ubuntu
repositories and I would like to avoid using svn if I can. I didn't
subscribe to the mailing list but I did read the archives and saw a
thread about making a deb package. It seems to have ended in April
without a clear resolution.
So is there a package available so I can use the Ubuntu package manager
to install it?
Unfortunately, after poking around a bit it would seem the only reliable
way of installing dabo for Linux at the moment is checking out trunk
from the project's subversion repository. Someone better informed should
feel free to set the record straight, if I am mistaken.
If your interest in a deb package is mainly the ability to uninstall,
then I'd recommend using virtualenv[1] until a suitable deb package is
released. The steps would be roughly this (untested) ...
That's part of it but mainly it's that they are so easy to install.
$ sudo apt-get install python-reportlab python-wxgtk2.8
$ sudo apt-get install subversion python-virtualenv
$ virtualenv daboenv
$ cd daboenv
$ source bin/activate # this is important
# now we install dabo as recommended, adapted from:
# http://wiki.dabodev.com/InstallationOnLinux
(daboenv)$
(daboenv)$ mkdir src&& cd src
(daboenv)$ svn co http://svn.dabodev.com/dabo/trunk dabo
(daboenv)$ cd dabo
(daboenv)$ python setup.py install # no sudo!
# and run the demo to verify the installation
(daboenv)$ demo/DaboDemo.py
...
Hmm, this might seem like a lot of work -- but by using this method,
dabo is installed under daboenv and not in the system-wide site-packages
-- particularly useful for evaluation, IMO. YMMV.
I read the website [1] and being new to linux there was a lot I did not
understand. I think I will go the svn route on a test machine before I
put it on my main machine.
HTH,
Marty
[1] http://virtualenv.openplans.org/
Thanks, Jim
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