Comments on: Installing Plone 4.0a1 on Debian

By: thet

thet — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:40:37 +0000

hi,
i commited a fix for readline support on linux now. patching works now.

By: Israel Saeta Pérez

Israel Saeta Pérez — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:48:26 +0000

Hey Matthew, thanks for the info.

But I recall some problems with the plone.recipe.zope2instance and zope2-location, since now Zope is provided as an egg (as far as I’ve understood). Anyway, I’ll try again to install Plone 4 with the plone3_buildout skeleton as you suggest. :)

By: Matthew Wilkes

Matthew Wilkes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:56:37 +0000

Sorry, the default version should be 3.3.2, not 3.2.2 – I hadn’t updated my ZopeSkel! :D

By: Matthew Wilkes

Matthew Wilkes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:53:34 +0000

You don’t need to modify the buildout config, just use ZopeSkel as I suggested:

nimbus:~ matthewwilkes$ paster create -t plone3_buildout
Selected and implied templates:
ZopeSkel#plone3_buildout A buildout for Plone 3 projects

Enter project name: plone4
Variables:
egg: plone4
package: plone4
project: plone4
Enter plone_version (Which Plone version to install) ['3.2.2']: 4.0a1

I know it looks weird, but as there’s so much work going on with ZopeSkel at the moment I didn’t want to introduce a new template just to (potentially) remove it again in a few weeks.

Putting 4.0a1 as the version number to either plone2.5_buildout or plone3_buildout will create a working Plone 4 buildout.

N.B.: Make sure you have the latest ZopeSkel release. If the plone3_buildout doesn’t default to 3.2.2 it’s not the latest, do easy_install -U ZopeSkel to fix that.