To expand on this there is a page that gives a list of things that you specifically need for plone running on Ubuntu. I did an apt-get of this list and the plone "installer" ran without error. On Feb 2, 2012 5:55 AM, "Mark Phillips" wrote: > 1. Read the readme that came with the plone installation software. > 2. install the dependencies that are listed in that readme. > > Mark > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> okay, apparently that got rid of the 'bits' error but now I get : >> >> ImportError: No module named _sha256 >> >> I tried to apt-get install it but no dice doing that. I then ran apt-file >> search and a list of 14 files popped up. Do I understand correctly that I >> need to reinstall all these files? I did that for the bits error but there >> were only four files to reinstall. >> >> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:26 PM, John wrote: >> >>> Your missing dependencies that plone needs to build properly. I look for >>> an install readme file and look there first. Not sure which distro you but >>> I also use apt-file with Ubuntu >>> >>> sudo apt-get install apt-file >>> apt-file update >>> apt-file search bits/predefs.h >>> >>> You'll then have to install the package that it says to. You'll have to >>> keep doing this for each missing dep. It takes time but you'll eventually >>> chip away the issues so it'll build. If no, you'll want to try and find a >>> pre-built package. >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> *From:* Michael Havens >>> *To:* Main PLUG discussion list >>> *Sent:* Sunday, January 29, 2012 2:37 PM >>> *Subject:* Re: problem installing plone >>> >>> This is cool... I'm looklng through the install log and this might be >>> relevant: >>> >>> Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: >>> _bsddb _hashlib _sqlite3 >>> _ssl _tkinter bsddb185 >>> bz2 dbm gdbm >>> linuxaudiodev ossaudiodev sunaudiodev >>> zlib >>> To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for >>> the module's name. >>> >>> (so what do they mean I should do?) >>> (if these 'bits' are there where shuld I put them?) >>> >>> Failed to build these modules: >>> crypt nis >>> ... >>> Warning - could not find file bits/predefs.h >>> Warning - could not find file sys/cdefs.h >>> Warning - could not find file gnu/stubs.h >>> Warning - could not find file bits/wchar.h >>> Warning - could not find file bits/wordsize.h >>> ... >>> Warning - could not find file sys/socket.h >>> Warning - could not find file bits/types.h >>> ... >>> Warning - could not find file bits/in.h >>> Warning - could not find file bits/endian.h >>> ... >>> *** WARNING: renaming "nis" since importing it failed: >>> build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/nis.so: undefined symbol: yp_master >>> >>> Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: >>> _bsddb _hashlib _sqlite3 >>> _ssl _tkinter bsddb185 >>> bz2 dbm gdbm >>> linuxaudiodev ossaudiodev sunaudiodev >>> zlib >>> To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the >>> module's name. >>> >>> >>> Failed to build these modules: >>> crypt nis >>> ... >>> >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >