No big deal, build-essentials and python-dev where needed on a brand new ubuntu installation.
I have been doing python development in the past so I was able to solve the problems easily. I just thought it would have been nice to have the instructions update since the errors one might get are cryptic at least. Simone. ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Simone Giannecchini GeoSolutions S.A.S. Founder - Software Engineer Via Carignoni 51 55041 Camaiore (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584983027 fax: +39 0584983027 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://simboss.blogspot.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonegiannecchini ------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Andrea Aime<[email protected]> wrote: > Simone Giannecchini ha scritto: >> >> Dear All, >> I wanted to spend a few words about the installation guidelines for >> Sphinx on ubuntu since I just tried to install it on a clean Ubuntu >> desktop 9.04. >> As they stand the installation steps seem to be incomplete, especially >> in view of guiding a Java developer and not a pythonist or a standard >> linux developer (c, c++ skills). >> Specifically, I got stuck the first time with a long list of errors >> which basically required me to install python development package >> which brings in python headers, the command is: >> >> sudo apt-get install python-dev >> >> After this I made it a bit further but then I got more errors, which I >> resolved by installing the build essentials as follows: >> >> sudo apt-get install build-essentials >> >> Notice that on windows things look easier, and the instructions seem just >> fine. >> I hope that these additions might help people in case they get stuck >> during the installation process. > > Simone, are you talking about the instructions here: > http://docs.geoserver.org/1.7.x/en/docguide/install.html > > So in the block where we tell people to install make and setup-tools > we should also cite build-essentials and python-dev? > In fact looking at my system I do have both installed. > Sorry about that, when I wrote the instructions I had a already > setup Linux machine and a virgin Windows one, that's why the > Windows instructions were easier to follow > > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > Andrea Aime > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
