Re: [Gnumed-devel] error in create gnumed db

[Karsten Hilbert]

> Still trying to get gnumed up again - switched temporarily back to 
> debian box as at least the egenix stuff works there.
> 
> started with virgin db and downloaded cvs:
> 
> dropdb gnumed
> createdb gnumed
You don't need any of that if you use Ian's installer frontend
or the bootstrap installer directly.

> then ran ian's install script and get following error
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "bootstrap-gm_db_system.py", line 70, in ?
>    from Gnumed.pycommon import gmLog
> ImportError: No module named Gnumed.pycommon
When we say

    from Gnumed.pycommon import something

this means

    import $PYTHONLIB/site-packages/Gnumed/pycommon/something.py

So, you must have a Gnumed/* hierarchy under site-packages/
*or* you can make a Gnumed directory anywhere and add it to
PYTHONPATH (not $PYTHONLIB !).

Two ways to do that:

a) create a link $PYTHONLIB/site-packages/Gnumed to
   gnumed/client of your CVS tree,
   later this link would be replaced with an installed copy of
   that part of the CVS tree

b) add gnumed/client/ to $PYTHONPATH, this is what the shell
   scripts in the CVS tree do (eg the gnumed wrappers and the
   redo-*.sh wrappers), Ian could just add that to his
   installer

Eventually, an installer would copy the necessary stuff to
site-packages/Gnumed/.

Karsten
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