Tinyerp

[Scott J. Henson]

Piltdownster wrote:
> Anyone manged to get the tinyerp server installed? Looks like a really
> usefull app for small businesses. 
> 
> After adding the relevent source I get the following error when trying to
> install via synaptic:
> 
> tinyerp-server:
>   Depends: python (<2.4) but 2.4.1-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
>  Depends: python-libxslt1  but it is not installable
> 

Yes, you will probably need to recompile.  This can be done pretty
easily if the app was packaged right, but if it wasn't it can turn very
bad.  The easy way is as follows.

apt-get source tinyerp-server
cd tinyerp-server-<ver>
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot
dpkg -i ../tinyerp-server_<ver>-<rev>_<arch>.deb

There might be some veriations in it, but the problem is that the
version you are looking at was compiled against(not really but close
enough) python 2.3.  They probably used debhelper and it added this
dependency in there.  If that is the case, then recompiling it will give
it a dep on python 2.4 and should be happy.  There may be some other
stuff you will have to do to get it working, but thats the start of it.