[Moin-user] still prob with docutil

[Paul Boddie]

On Saturday 22. February 2014 23.22.02 Renato wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm getting crazy :-(
> 
> In a moinmoin page that speaks about rest, I read this:
> 
>     This is a *very* simple example. If you see two asterisks around the
>     word "very" in the previous sentence, then the module docutils is
>     improperly installed (or not installed at all). When the module
>     docutils is there, the word is displayed in italics and this whole
>     block of text is not displayed in a special source-code-like format,
>     but like a normal part of the page
> 
> I see the two asterisks, so, maybe the docuils module is installed
> improperly.

Is this a built-in page? Does it have the following at the top of the page 
text...?

#FORMAT rst

> I think Docutil are present in my pc.
> I'm wondering if I need to config moinmoin to let him know, where
> Docutil are.
> 
> Can someone help me?

Sure. You're using Debian, I think, so try the following first:

dpkg -l python-docutils

The response should include a line that starts like this:

ii  python-docutils                   0.8.1-8

Here, the version is the one provided by Wheezy. If you don't see "ii" at the 
start then you need to try the following using sudo or as root:

apt-get install python-docutils

Alternatively, if you're feeling ambitious or don't have root, you can install 
docutils from source. It isn't too difficult, but then you will need to teach 
Moin about the place it has been installed into.

Meanwhile, when using the system package, you should be able to avoid telling 
Moin about location of docutils, but perhaps only if you're using the system 
Python as well. I recommend using system packages for most things on Debian, 
especially for "infrastructure" that shouldn't change that often.

Paul