[zorp] using Zorp on a feisty

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Mon Aug 18 09:56:22 CEST 2008


On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 21:37 +0200, Árpád Magosányi wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Sorry if it is old news. Here is how to compile and use Zorp on an
> Ubuntu feisty:
> 
> - install python2.4-dev, and uninstall python2.5-dev if it is
> installed
> - ln -s  /usr/bin/python2.4-config /usr/bin/python-config
> - ln -s /usr/bin/python2.4 /usr/bin/python  #WARNING, it may break
> things!

or do:

PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.4 ./configure <config opts>

> - compile libzorpll and zorp from source (I used libzorpll_3.1.8.2 and
> zorp_3.1.14 with anypy pathes). Before that change debian/control to
> depend on python2.4-dev instead of python-dev (mentioned in two
> places).
> - apt-get install python-dns
> 
> Enjoy. You can ln -s /usr/bin/python2.5 /usr/bin/python back and
> rm /usr/bin/python-config now to play safely.

The 2.5 compatibility problem has already been fixed in our version
control system, so it will be released with the next GPL release.

-- 
Bazsi



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