
Hi, I downloaded the latest Mailman branch from Launchpad (using bzr branch lp:mailman) and tried installing it but ran into some trouble. The commands I was told to use for the installation were: "python bootstrap.py" followed by "bin/buildout" and "bin/test" (I assume the bin-folder will be created after the bootstrap file is run since I don't have it right now). However, running the first command I encounter the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "bootstrap.py", line 69, in <module> ws.find(pkg_resources.Requirement.parse('setuptools')).location AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'location'
The file belong to my user which was also used for the python command (meaning I did not use sudo to run it, although doing so gives me the same error). Any tips how I should proceed to install Mailman 3.0 and should the commands be run using sudo? I should probably add a user "mailman" instead of using my own, but right now I'm more interested in getting the whole thing to run. I currently run Kubuntu 10.04 and Python v. 2.6.5 if that might have something to do with the error message.
Thanks, Anna

Hi,
Well this is the same problem I am too facing , I tried with the Ubuntu 9.10 were I too get the same error what Anne has posted. Please a quick review will help us in installing mailman 3.0
Thanks
Regards Jaideep

Hi I tried installing Mailman 3.0a5 , over Fedora 12 , I did the following steps :
1.) python2.6 bootstrap.py
It worked successfully
2.) sudo bin/buildout
It gets stuck when trying to get the distribution for munepy, I also tried to download it manually but seems that the links are missing from [1]<http://packages.python.org/munepy/>.
Thanks
Regards Jaideep

On May 05, 2010, at 06:29 PM, Anna Granudd wrote:
I'm on Ubuntu 10.04 with the stock Python 2.6.5, so all that should work, and you should not need to be root to build and run Mailman in your own working directories.
I /think/ what's happening is that zc.buildout 1.5.0b2 was recently pushed to the Cheeseshop and that has some bugs that broke our build. I definitely tried this a few days ago and it worked just fine. I've seen some recently messages about a new, broken version of zc.buildout, and I'll check with some folks in the know a little later today.
-Barry

Hi,
Well this is the same problem I am too facing , I tried with the Ubuntu 9.10 were I too get the same error what Anne has posted. Please a quick review will help us in installing mailman 3.0
Thanks
Regards Jaideep

Hi I tried installing Mailman 3.0a5 , over Fedora 12 , I did the following steps :
1.) python2.6 bootstrap.py
It worked successfully
2.) sudo bin/buildout
It gets stuck when trying to get the distribution for munepy, I also tried to download it manually but seems that the links are missing from [1]<http://packages.python.org/munepy/>.
Thanks
Regards Jaideep

On May 05, 2010, at 06:29 PM, Anna Granudd wrote:
I'm on Ubuntu 10.04 with the stock Python 2.6.5, so all that should work, and you should not need to be root to build and run Mailman in your own working directories.
I /think/ what's happening is that zc.buildout 1.5.0b2 was recently pushed to the Cheeseshop and that has some bugs that broke our build. I definitely tried this a few days ago and it worked just fine. I've seen some recently messages about a new, broken version of zc.buildout, and I'll check with some folks in the know a little later today.
-Barry
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Anna Granudd
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Barry Warsaw
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Jaideep Khandelwal