[Alexandria-list] Ubuntu 7.10 and Alexandria

[Cathal Mc Ginley]

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:21:33 +0100 (CET)
"Jack Myrseth" <jack at enkom.no> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
Hello Jack, sorry about the installation problems. Alexandria has
generally been a bit tricky to get installed perfectly. We're working
on it, and your e-mail will help us improve our docs, hopefully.

You should have a document describing some of the dependency issues on
your system, installed by the alexandria deb in

  /usr/share/doc/alexandria/README.Debian

Or it's available online here:

http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/alexandria/debian/README.Debian

> I have now done several attempts to install Alexandria on a comletely
> newly installed Ubuntu 7.10 with no other installations before it
> (besides of course the update after the installation).
> 
> My first installation was from the all-deb file on Rubyforge.org, and
> it installed whitout errors, but the
> Edit-Preferences-Providers-Advanced button is gone.

You need Ruby/ZOOM for this (ZOOM support, and YAZ, are needed for the
British Library and Library of Congress providers). There is no recent
deb file for ruby-zoom. The README.Debian describes the details, but
the summary version is as follows

  sudo aptitude install ruby1.8-dev libruby1.8 libyaz libyaz-dev
  sudo aptitude install rubygems
  sudo gem install --remote zoom
  sudo gem install --remote marc

> Neither is Amazon
> installed as provider by default, but I do not know if that should be
> so.

Amazon support is provided by the 'libamazon-ruby' package, which is
optional (Recommended, in fact). You should get Amazon support back if
you install it. But don't use version 0.9.0, it has a known bug.

http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/news/2007-12-09--upgrade-to-ruby-amazon-0.9.2.html

Grab the deb file for 0.9.2 from here:
http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/dependencies/ruby-amazon/libamazon-ruby_0.9.2_all.deb

> After removing the first installation I ran one from the Package
> Manager, but with the same result. I am starting to wonder if there
> are some dependencies or prerequisites (are those different things? -
> perhaps they are) missing here.

I think it's a matter of turning on some optional dependencies. But
recommended dependencies should be turned on by default.

By the way, you can also install 'libimage-size-ruby' to make the
HTML-export work better.

(But we're having problems with 'librevolution-ruby', so I
wouldn't try that at the moment.)

> I you start from scratch, what is
> needed to have Alexandria working on 7.10 without installing the dev
> environment, which I newer will come to use, anyway?

Well, be aware that there are a couple of bugs in 0.6.2 which we've
fixed since the release. But we're working on getting 0.6.3 released as
soon as we can.

> Is there a list
> somewhere of what should be installed first? Any information, a link
> perhaps, would be appreciated.
> 
You're right. A document describing all these issues, preferably on the
website, would simplify matters. I'll work on it.

> Jack
> 

Thanks for your e-mail, let us know if you have further problems.

   -   Cathal.
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