Installing Zope 3 under Linux

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Zope 3 runs under both Windows and Unix. You can download the software here.

Zope supports multiple running instances, where you can have several Zope websites, each configured separately but all sharing the underlying Zope software. Our first step is to install that underlying software.

Note: You should do these steps as an ordinary user, not root, to avoid errors during the testing phase.

  [jrush]# cd /var/tmp
  [jrush]# wget http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope3/3.1.0final/Zope-3.1.0.tgz
  [jrush]# tar xvzf Zope-3.1.0.tgz
  [jrush]# cd Zope-3.1.0
  [jrush]# ./configure --prefix /usr/share/zope-3.1.0 \
                       --with-python /usr/bin/python2.4
  [jrush]# make

After building the core software and before installing it, run the Zope 3 test suite for insure it is fully functional on your system. If it all passes, then actually install it into your system.

NOTE: The "make check" fails here at the start if I try to use Python 2.4 but works fine with Python 2.3. I think it is just the test setup though, not something fundamentally wrong with Python 2.4.

  [jrush]# make check
  [jrush]# sudo make install