ch0wned – Installing TaskCoach and all its depenencies in $HOME for EL4/EL5
Written by max on April 2, 2010
ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don't have root access.
Installing TaskCoach and its dependencies in $HOME for EL4/EL5
This guide assumes you’re leaving off from my previous post : http://warped.org/blog/2009/03/04/chown3d-part-2-gtk-and-glib-in-your-own-home-directory/ where you’ve setup a script called config_gapp.
Update: 2/1/2011 – Added EL5 . Irony : Spending a half-day trying to install an application that’s going to make you more productive.
Update: 3/12/2012 – Latest Version and $HOME install of python 2.6
Requirements
- Python-2.6.7.tar.bz2 / python26
- wxPython-src-2.8.12.1.tar.bz2
- TaskCoach-1.3.9.tar.gz
Directions
- Python
Install it like normal unless you have a modern distro that has a decent install of Python 2.5, in which case you will need to install the following things into $HOME. Not sure how to do that in Python, so you might as well have your own local version. If you have EL5, you may have the ‘python26’ package installed in which you can use that and can skip this step.
config_gapp \ --enable-shared \ --enable-unicode=ucs4 make make install
- wxWidgets (included w/ wxPython)
EL4 Only : Install the following patch from This Thread :--- wxPython/src/gtk/_gdi_wrap.cpp.orig 2009-08-08 16:26:48.000000000 +0200 +++ wxPython/src/gtk/_gdi_wrap.cpp 2009-08-08 16:32:50.000000000 +0200 @@ -4195,6 +4195,10 @@ virtual wxGraphicsBrush CreateRadialGradientBrush(wxDouble , wxDouble , wxDouble , wxDouble , wxDouble , const wxColour &, const wxColour &) { return wxNullGraphicsBrush; } virtual wxGraphicsFont CreateFont( const wxFont & , const wxColour & ) { return wxNullGraphicsFont; } + + // patch required as explained in + // http://groups.google.com/group/wxPython-users/browse_thread/thread/129ba27e2f868c3c?pli=1 + wxGraphicsBitmap CreateBitmap( const wxBitmap &bitmap ) const { return wxNullGraphicsBitmap; } };
For EL4 run :
config_gapp --enable-unicode make install cd contrib/src/gizmos
For EL5 using installed python26 run :
config_gapp --enable-unicode --enable-compat24 --enable-compat26 make install cd contrib/src/gizmos && make install
If you later get errors about “the library and executable don’t match”, you may need to tweak the –enable-compat* flags above till it works.
- wxPython
cd wxPython vim config.py BUILD_GLCANVAS = 0 # If true, build the contrib/glcanvas extension module BUILD_OGL = 0 # If true, build the contrib/ogl extension module BUILD_STC = 0 # If true, build the contrib/stc extension module BUILD_GIZMOS = 1 # Build a module for the gizmos contrib library # EL4 w/ self-installed python25 run_gapp python2.5 setup.py build_ext run_gapp python2.5 setup.py install --home=$HOME # EL5 w/ system installed python26 # python26 setup.py build_ext # python26 setup.py install --home=$HOME # EL5 w/ self-installed python26 run_gapp python2.6 setup.py build_ext run_gapp python2.6 setup.py install --home=$HOME
- TaskCoach Install
# EL4 w/ self-install python: #run_gapp python2.5 setup.py build #run_gapp python2.5 setup.py install # For system installed python26 I needed to specify the above installed libraries in my $PYTHONPATH : export PYTHONPATH=$LIB/lib64/python:$HOME/lib64/python/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wxPython:$HOME/lib64/python/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx:$HOME/python/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode # EL5 w/ self-install python: run_gapp python2.6 setup.py build run_gapp python2.6 setup.py install --home=$HOME # EL5 w/ system python26 #python26 setup.py build #python26 setup.py install --home=$HOME
- TaskCoach Wrapper Script
# EL4 / EL5 w/ self-install python2.5 run_gapp $HOME/bin/taskcoach.py # EL5 w/ system python26 export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/lib64/python:$HOME/lib/python python26 $HOME/bin/taskcoach.py # EL5 w/ self python export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/lib64/python:$HOME/lib/python python2.6 $HOME/bin/taskcoach.py
