Re: [Health] GNU Health on Ubuntu 12.04

[Luis Falcon]

Dear Ronald

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 6:41 PM, ronald munjoma <address@hidden> wrote:
> Good day,
>
> Going through the GNU Health install manual on Wikibooks [1] I came across:
> <qoute> These instructions don't work in Ubuntu 12.04 </quote>
>
Thanks for pointing it out. I did go through the installation with
Pierre today, and he got to install it on Ubuntu 12.04 without
problems, so we should get that message/comment out from Wikibooks.
> I would like to point out that I managed to get GNU Health 1.6.0 and
> currently running 1.6.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 (planning to install GNU Health
> 1.6.2 on Ubuntu 12.04)
>
> I had issues installing the QRCode module, at first I was unable to get JPEG
> and PNG support working in the Python Imaging Library. I solved the issue by
> following post #3 from the Ubuntu Forums [2] (note: if I am not mistaken
> this only affects the 32 Bit version, which I am running)
>
> May be the Python Image Library (PIL) should be added as dependency for
> Ubuntu 12.04.
>
Good. Yes, we need to put PIL as a dependency.

By the way, we just release 1.6.2 ! Working on OS specific packages now :-)

Thanks a lot !

Best
> Ubuntu 12.04 ships with python 2.7, thus you will get
>
> "DeprecationWarning: With-statements now directly support multiple context
> managers
>   with contextmanager:"
>
> which can be safely ignored.
>
> I would like to find out what issues did other users faced whilst trying to
> install GNU Health on Ubuntu 12.04?
>
>
> [1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Installation
>
> [2] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1751455
>
> Regards and thanks
> Ronald Munjoma



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Luis Falcon
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