Talk:Zope HOWTO

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I just want to say that this article was very helpful. I am using OpenSuSE 10.2 and wanted to try Zope but it is severely broken because of Python 2.5 and according to the bug reports may not be fixed for up to 6 months ( it is so broken that it won't start and won't uninstall either). Following this HowTo I got a local Python 2.4 and Zope installed and running very quickly. --- Brian

I couldn't get the zope package to run either and I too had problems uninstalling because of pre-uninstallation scripts. I was finally successful by issuing the following command as root from the command line:

rpm -v --noscripts --erase zope

I hope it helps someone else. If anyone knows how to get either zope or zope3 running, please post it here -- Jim

The zope version shipped with opensuse 10.2 is broken. After uninstalling the packes you should add http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/mkudlvasr/openSUSE_10.2/ as installation source (see also https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=221256) and install zope2-pyhton2.4. Additionally you must go to /opt/zope/lib/python and do a ln -s ./Zope2 ./Zope. Last step is to change the link /usr/bin/python from python2.5 to python2.4.

i don't know if the link to python2.4 will break something else in your system so use on your own risk.