Calibre Installation on opensuse 11.1

[michaelbn]

Hello,
I just tried to install calibre 0.6.29 on my oss 11.1 using the tarball (as my glibc-version is lower than 2.10). There where some dependencies which I could resolve (modules sipconfig, mechanize, cssutils and others) but then I got the message:
mip4:/opt/calibre # python setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
* File "setup.py", line 99, in <module>
* * sys.exit(main())
* File "setup.py", line 85, in main
* * command.run_all(opts)
* File "/opt/calibre/setup/__init__.py", line 158, in run_all
* * self.run_cmd(self, opts)
* File "/opt/calibre/setup/__init__.py", line 149, in run_cmd
* * cmd.pre_sub_commands(opts)
* File "/opt/calibre/setup/install.py", line 128, in pre_sub_commands
* * import calibre.utils.config as c
* File "/opt/calibre/src/calibre/__init__.py", line 45, in <module>
* * cssutils.log.setLevel(logging.WARN)
* File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cssutils/errorhandler.py", line 73,
in __getattr__
* * '(errorhandler) No Attribute "%s" found' % name)
AttributeError: (errorhandler) No Attribute "setLevel" found

I must confess that I don't understand this message and therefore I don't know what's wrong. I would appreciate any comment on how to resolve this.
Thank you in advance,
Michael

[kovidgoyal]

The version of cssutils on your system is too old, calibre need 0.9.7 alpha2

[michaelbn]

Thanks for the quick answer. I tried to find cssutils 0.9.7 alpha2 and I only found it at python.org (it seems that there is no package for my distribution - nor for the newer version 11.2). I tried to install required cssutils version as described at python.org but it failed (the last line says: RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp). I'm not a programmer so I don't know what to do at this point.
Is there an older version of calibre which works with cssutils-0.9.5b2 (which comes with oss 11.1). Thanks in advance

[kovidgoyal]

older versions are available at sourceforge

[michaelbn]

Yes - from there I got the 0.6.29 version. But how can I tell which one still works with cssutils-0.9.5b2? There is no further information nor in the changelog I could find information. Must I try all older versions in order to find the latest one which works with the older cssutils?

[kovidgoyal]

There's an entry about cssutils in the changelog. Just use the search function of your browser to find it.

[michaelbn]

Ok. After searching a bit I found that 0.6.21 is my version and I managed to install it. Thank you very much for the help. On the configuration screen I found that this version doesn't support PRS-600 - I'll try with PRS-500...

[michaelbn]

Hi. Now that calibre works fine on my desktop I thought it would be a good idea to install it on my netbook, too. On the netbook I'm using the same distro and version (opensuse 11.1). Before trying to install calibre I controlled the installed packages in order to be sure there is all I need (poppler, mechanize, cssutils, etc.). Then I tried the same as on my desktop and got this:
misam:/opt/calibre # python setup.py install
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 99, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "setup.py", line 85, in main
command.run_all(opts)
File "/opt/calibre/setup/__init__.py", line 158, in run_all
self.run_cmd(self, opts)
File "/opt/calibre/setup/__init__.py", line 149, in run_cmd
cmd.pre_sub_commands(opts)
File "/opt/calibre/setup/install.py", line 128, in pre_sub_commands
import calibre.utils.config as c
File "/opt/calibre/src/calibre/__init__.py", line 45, in <module>
cssutils.log.setLevel(logging.WARN)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cssutils/errorhandler.py", line 73, in
__getattr__
'(errorhandler) No Attribute "%s" found' % name)
AttributeError: (errorhandler) No Attribute "setLevel" found

I don't know what to do as cssutils are installed...
Thanks in advance.

[kovidgoyal]

You need cssutil >= 0.9.7 alpha 2

[michaelbn]

I tried to install the same version as on my desktop (0.6.21) where it works with cssutils-0.9.5b2...

[kovidgoyal]

Install the latest cssutils, its not hard

sudo easy_install -U cssutils

[michaelbn]

As a first message I get back "import site failed use -v vor backtrace" and then there come a lot of error messages finishing with "RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp"
I looked in /usr/lib/python2.6/ and there I found site.py, site.pyc and site.pyo. Ah - in case it's important: there is a link /usr/local/lib/python2.6 to /usr/lib/python2.6