Re: [Health-dev] Wiki Instructions for installing latest Tryton client

[Luis Falcon]

Hi Kaushik !

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Kaushik <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>      I am on ubuntu and upgraded from GNUHealth 1.8 to 2.0.     The script
> gnuhealth_install.sh ran successfully.  For  installing the latest tryton
> client I ended up not following the wiki instructions
> (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Installation. ) .
> I wanted to check if I am doing something wrong or if the wiki is wrong.
>
> 1) First I tried to install the latest Tryton client as mentionined in the
> wiki -
>
> I did : pip --user install.
> It asked me to do an upgrade. The following was the message :
> Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): tryton in
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
> Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): python-dateutil in
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from tryton)
> Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): six in
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from python-dateutil->tryton)
> Cleaning up...
>

Thank you for the feedback
The right way is on the wiki : pip install --upgrade --user tryton

Always use the "--user" argument, to install in under your $HOME dir.
Otherwise it will try to do a system-wide installation and is not what
we want.

I just updated the wiki on this.

Thank you !

Bests,
> Then I did : pip --upgrade Tryton.
>
> Is this a correct thing to do.   If so, should the wiki page instructions be
> updated?
>
> 2)  When I did the upgrade as above, it removed the existing Tryton client
> in .local/bin and installed the Tryton 2.8 in /usr/local/bin/tryton.
>
> Is this the right place in which the tryton client will be installed?. The
> wiki says it would be installed in ~/.local/bin.  Then should we update this
> wiki documentation too?
>
> Thanks
> Kaushik
>
>



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Luis Falcon
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