On Jun 21, 2012, at 09:25 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
Jessy Kate Schingler jessy@jessykate.com said:
FWIW, i found installing within a virtualenv to be a sanity-inducing operation for very similar reasons.
What's involved here?
It's really pretty simple. I'm not sure what the default version of Python is for Mint (it's 2.7 for Ubuntu 12.04), but either 2.6 or 2.7 should work fine, and it's a bug if it doesn't. Anyway, your steps should be something along the lines of:
- apt-get install python-virtualenv
- virtualenv /path/to/your/mm3/installation
- source /path/to/your/mm3/installation/bin/activate
- python setup.py install
At this point, you actually don't need to be in your virtualenv (or really for the setup.py install step either) but it can be useful because the bin directory will be put on your $PATH. In any case, what I'd do next is:
- edit /path/to/your/mm3/installation/etc/mailman.cfg
- mailman start
I forget whether mailman start needs to be passed the -C option, but I think
not.
Jessy Kate, can you send me an online reference on setting up a proper virtual environment?
This would be the perfect thing for a code contribution! Would either your or Jessy like to submit a bug and some improved deployment documentation, either as a branch, patch, or .rst file?
Cheers, -Barry