[reportlab-users] easy_install problem?

[Sam]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the reply. I've just tried to install from source but am
getting a single failure from the preinstall tests. Is there something
that I'm missing?

webserver:/home/domains/pisa_install/ReportLab_2_3# python setup.py
tests-preinstall
.........Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "genreference.py", line 31, in <module>
    run()
  File "genreference.py", line 17, in run
    yaml2pdf.run('reference.yml','reportlab-reference.pdf')
  File "/home/domains/pisa_install/ReportLab_2_3/tools/docco/yaml2pdf.py",
line 54, in run
    story.append(Paragraph(text, style, bulletText=bulletText))
  File "/home/domains/pisa_install/ReportLab_2_3/src/reportlab/platypus/paragraph.py",
line 798, in __init__
    self._setup(text, style, bulletText, frags, cleanBlockQuotedText)
  File "/home/domains/pisa_install/ReportLab_2_3/src/reportlab/platypus/paragraph.py",
line 816, in _setup
    % (_parser.errors[0],text[:min(30,len(text))]))
ValueError: xml parser error (garbage in start tag) in paragraph beginning
'Very simple and fast XML parse'
Failed to import renderPM.
F............................................................................................................................................................................
======================================================================
FAIL: Test if all manuals buildable from source.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/domains/pisa_install/ReportLab_2_3/tests/test_docs_build.py",
line 32, in test0
    assert os.path.isfile('reportlab-reference.pdf'), 'genAll.py
failed to generate reportlab-reference.pdf!'
AssertionError: genAll.py failed to generate reportlab-reference.pdf!

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 182 tests in 63.952s

FAILED (failures=1)

Many thanks again.

Sam




2009/5/12 Andy Robinson <andy at reportlab.com>:

> 2009/5/12 Sam <sam.blackmore at gmail.com>:

>> Hello everyone,

>>

>> I having problems install reportlab using easy_install

>

> We don't support easy_install yet.   The correct approach

> is "python setup.py install"; see the INSTALL.txt inside the

> distribution.

>

> Even if we did change our distro to support easy_install,

> a proper installation ideallly requires both FreeType 6

> and PIL compiled to use it, and easy_install can't

> control the various compilers to that degree.  So we

> prefer people to download the tgz and follow the instructions.

>

> Best Regards,

>

>

> Andy Robinson

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