Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” removed python 2.4 libraries from the distribution, which are necessary to run Zope/Plone.
To work in a more defined environment, where other as the system libraries are installed for a specific python, people use virtualenv.
Install virtualenv, python-2.4 from the distribution repository.
Create a
virtualenv -p python2.4 --no-site-packages myappdir
In myappdir,
source bin/active
sets some environment variables.
I use zsh with the “nounset”-Option, which the script doesn’t work with, so I had to
unsetopt nounset
Install ipython or zc.buildout or other eggs you need
easy-install ipython
PIL aka python-imaging is not longer available in a a 2.4 version in Ubuntu 9.04, but contains a lot of binary code so I didn’t want to build it myself. 3 options: Install an old python-imaging-2.4-package,
Install it by hand – easy_install –find-links http://download.zope.org/distribution PILwoTK or untar and python setup.py install and before that, you have to install some other image handling libs to get all the features as explained here http://sam.stainsby.id.au/blog/?p=28
sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev libfreetype6-dev (zlib?)
or. what I did, install the current package and link to it from the virtualenv.
In myappdir/lib/site-packages
ln -s /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL PIL
Python complains about differing C API versions, but it seems to work.
This all looks less than perfect, esp. the PIL link hack.
Too many packaging tools.