Gnowsys Installation

Simplest Installation procedure

Get a gnoware DVD from the gnowledge.org laboratory. Run the script from the DVD, which contains the required Python, Zope. If you do not want the wikipedia and wordnet database that comes with the DVD, comment the lines from the installation script. This will save a lot of time of installation issues of Zope and GNOWSYS. Check out more details from gnowareDVD

Requirements:

1. Zope 2.8.x or 2.9.x
2. python 2.3.5 or later
3. python xmpp module
4. gnowsys source

Installation Steps

1. Install Zope 2.8.x version from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/ while following instruction given inside doc/INSTALL.txt
   

Zope Book Installation Chapter can also help you out.

Zope Installation Steps - A short installation guide for zope.

Get your python installed correctly as suggested in Zope Installation Steps.

2. Install xmpp module(Python library for communication with XMPP (Jabber) servers) for your python. In latest python it is already installed but not for earlier versions.

You can check whether xmpp module is there in your python or not suing this line in python prompt. Be sure that you are using same python as used in zope.

If you do not get this ImportError then you have xmpp already installed.

     >>import xmpp
     Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
     ImportError: No module named xmpp    

If you are getting ImportError then you can continue installing xmpp module here.

3. Check out Gnowsys? and get the version or branch you want. Place the gnowsys source directory inside the Products directory of zope instance which you created. Check the user / group and the permissions. And restart your zope.

Installation complete. Now you can create a gnowsys Instance using ZMI.