I’m still getting used to the quirks of developing with Python on OS X (I really need to finish my “Why I switched” post…), and the latest thing to trip me up was a) installing Python modules and b) install psycopg2 in particular.
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Posts Tagged ‘postgresql’
Running Typo svn on Debian Stable (Sarge)
Thursday, June 8th, 2006After numerous attempts to upgrade this site to the latest version of Typo and the current version of Ruby on Rails I’ve finally succeeded. The things that tripped me up were:
- Debian `stable` ships Ruby 1.8.2. Whilst this is fine for Rails 1.1 I couldn’t migrate to Typo svn’s schema which I thought meant I needed 1.8.4. I didn’t
- I was running Postgres 7.4.7 (again Debian default which was causing the migration problems
Once I’d figured my way past those I’m now running Postgresql from Debian Backports and Ruby 1.8.4 of my own concoction, with Rails 1.1 (from gems, not debs). A side effect of this is that my old theme was broken on Typo svn so for the time being I’ve switched to Scribbish which is a fantastic theme for for general use and to base your own on – which I shall be doing shortly.
Here’s what I did to solve the package issues I had.