[Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

[Jim Byrnes]

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