[Grok-dev] ubuntu and installing Grok

[Wichert Akkerman]

On 7/8/10 15:07 , Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I can confirm that with a manually installed distribute and then a
> easy_install installed virtualenv , the problem doesn't occur. It's
> probable it also won't occur with a manually installed setuptools either.
>
> I reported an issue about it on launchpad:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/grok/+bug/603144
>
> Volunteers are very welcome to see whether they can't fix
> z3c.autoinclude so it really really doesn't look in system packages,
> except for packages such as setuptools that are actually installed in there.

A clean ubuntu server does not install setuptools. It does install 
pkg_resources though, which resulted in bootstrap.py breaking (fixed in 
svn now). I don't know if ubuntu desktop is different in this aspect.

Wichert.