On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:40:10 +0100 (CET) vvatikiotis@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
I'm trying to install nav on ubuntu 9.04 and this fails cause of 2 (only 2) dependency failures. a) python < 2.5. 9.04 has python 2.6. b) postgress = 8.1. Ubuntu has postgres 8.3
Is it necessary to pin these 2 dependency versions ? I have knowledge of python but I'd assume that 2.6 is good enough against 2.5 source code. Same goes for postgres
This is not necessary for NAV, but the Debian package itself only supports python 2.4 (it installs library modules directly to /usr/lib/python2.4/...).
I'm not sure whether the package contains any specific dependency to PostgreSQL 8.1, but NAV works fine on 8.3 for us.
Morten Werner Forsbring (the Debian package maintainer) is currently working on a revised package for Debian Lenny, but I'm not up-to-date on the status of this work. Care to comment, Werner?
Correct me if I'm wrong. In the mean time I'l try to force install nav.
Since the python libraries are only installed for python 2.4, you will likely have problems finding the libraries when running python 2.5, unless you change your python 2.5 library search path. You may be able to make it work by appending the correct directory to sys.path in /etc/python2.5/sitecustomize.py .
btw, seems VERY promising.
Thanks :)