[Zope] Failure to install PIL on a Linux server

[Tino Wildenhain]

Dominik Wezel schrieb:
> Tino,
> 
>> apt-get install python2.3-imaging
>>
>> ready.
> 
> 
> Thanks anyway, but you probably didn't read the last section of my mail. 
>  Unfortunately, I *have* to find a way to do it manually.
> FYI: It has to do with the way I set up Zope and various other stuff 
> around it.  Unfortunately, back then I needed a very upfront version of 
> Zope as yet unavailable through the debian package system, so I chose to 
> set it up manually; this led to the need for a particular python version 
> not available through the debian package system, so I set it up 
> manually.  Now the customer needs PIL on this manual setup.  Albeit I 
> tried to apt-get it, it didn't integrate at all with the other stuff. 
> Needlesds to say I don't want to setup another python version on the 
> same server, as mass storage capacity *is* an issue here).

Hm. You can perfectly run a source build of Zope on package-python
from debian. Testing has 2.3.5-6, which is perfectly usable.

Thats why I'm using debian too - to save me from all the hassle with
source depencies while using source where I really want it :-)