Ubuntu and python 2.4

Install

• Install python 2.4 dev packages using apt-get…

• Install virtualenv from the Debian repository (this version allows us to specify the version of python.

  sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
  

• Create the virtual environment:

  cd ~/.virtualenvs/
  virtualenv --python=python2.4 --no-site-packages test-python2.4
  source test-python2.4/bin/activate
  

• Download, extract and install ReportLab:

  wget http://www.reportlab.org/ftp/ReportLab_2_3.tar.gz
  tar xf ReportLab_2_3.tar.gz
  cd ReportLab_2_3/
  python setup.py install
  

  Note: Earlier versions of ReportLab do not install into the correct virtualenv folder…

• Install pycrypto:

  easy_install pycrypto
  

• Install Django and other dependencies:

  easy_install pip
  pip install django==1.1.1
  pip install django-tagging
  pip install django-pagination
  easy_install http://www.satchmoproject.com/snapshots/trml2pdf-1.2.tar.gz
  easy_install django-registration
  easy_install PyYAML
  easy_install elementtree
  easy_install --find-links=http://download.zope.org/distribution PILwoTk
  easy_install python-memcached
  

• The following dependencies are installed manually:

  cd ~/src
  hg clone https://bkroeze@bitbucket.org/bkroeze/django-threaded-multihost/
  cd django-threaded-multihost/
  python setup.py install
  
  cd ~/src
  hg clone http://bitbucket.org/bkroeze/django-caching-app-plugins/
  cd ~/.virtualenvs/test-python2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
  ln -s /home/patrick/src/django-caching-app-plugins/app_plugins .
  
  cd ~/src
  hg clone https://sorl-thumbnail.googlecode.com/hg/ sorl-thumbnail
  cd ~/.virtualenvs/test-python2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
  ln -s /home/patrick/src/sorl-thumbnail/sorl/ .
  
  cd ~/src
  hg clone http://bitbucket.org/bkroeze/django-signals-ahoy/
  cd ~/.virtualenvs/test-python2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
  ln -s /home/patrick/src/django-signals-ahoy/signals_ahoy .
  

• Install database driver e.g. MySQL.

• Install Satchmo:

  wget http://bitbucket.org/chris1610/satchmo/get/v0.9-rc1.tar.gz
  tar xf v0.9-rc1.tar.gz
  cd satchmo
  python setup.py install
  

  Note: This will install Satchmo-0.9_pre into site packages…

• To test:

  (test-python2.4)patrick@buzz:~/temp/satchmo$ python
  Python 2.4.6 (#2, Mar 19 2009, 10:02:47)
  [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> import django
  >>> import satchmo_store
  >>> satchmo_store.get_version()
  '0.9-pre hg-unknown'