On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Ryan Ollos <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Abhisek Das <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to install Apache Bloodhound on Ubuntu 12.04.
>> I'm using apache. I have followed the installation instruction and
>> installed python and other required libraries and postgres.
>> when I try to install I get the following error:
>> psycopg2 needs to be installed to initialise a postgresql db
>>
>> But I have already installed it.
>> test@test-VirtualBox:~/Desktop/bloodhound/installer$ python
>> Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug  1 2012, 05:16:07)
>> [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>> import psycopg2
>> >>> psycopg2
>> <module 'psycopg2' from
>> '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/psycopg2/__init__.pyc'>
>>
>> As you can see from above that psycopg2 is already installed, but
>> bloodhound setup is giving error related to psycopg2.
>>
>> Kindly help me out.
>>
>
> Hi Abhisek,
>
> The issue you are experiencing is a known issue with the 0.5.2 release.
> The easiest solution would be to grab the 0.5.3 release, which will be
> officially published later today. In the meantime, you can download that
> release here:
>
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/bloodhound/apache-bloodhound-0.5.3.tar.gz
>
> I apologize for any inconvenience you experienced.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Ryan
>

Hi Abhisek,

I left out an important detail earlier. You'll need to specify the
`--system-site-packages` when creating the virtualenv:

virtualenv --system-site-packages bloodhound

The file installer/README.rst in the 0.5.3 release has been updated with
this detail. The wiki page (1) hasn't yet been updated. In a different
thread this was discussed, it sounded like we wanted to investigate other
potential solutions for the issue.

Regards,

- Ryan

(1) https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound/wiki/BloodhoundInstall

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