[Mailman-Developers] Whoosh Error during installation of hyperkitty

[Mark Sapiro]

On 12/02/2016 11:55 PM, Nikhil Rayaprolu wrote:
> Hello I am new to the Mailman community and on my try to contribute for
> Mailman,I started installing all packages . For Hyperkitty I followed
> https://hyperkitty.readthedocs.io/en/latest/development.html . Everything
> went fine without any errors but on accessing the hyperkitty on my browser
> , it shows me an error stating "A server error occurred.  Please contact
> the administrator."
> and on the terminal the last 3 lines shows
> 
> File
> "/home/nikhil/dev/mailman/venv2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django_haystack-2.5.1-py2.7.egg/haystack/backends/whoosh_backend.py",
> line 30, in <module>
>     raise MissingDependency("The 'whoosh' backend requires the installation
> of 'Whoosh'. Please refer to the documentation.")
> MissingDependency: The 'whoosh' backend requires the installation of
> 'Whoosh'. Please refer to the documentation.



As it says at
<http://hyperkitty.readthedocs.io/en/latest/development.html#setting-up-the-databases>,
"HyperKitty’s default configuration uses the Whoosh backend, so if you
want to use that you just need to install the Whoosh Python library."

  pip install Whoosh

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