Cando seems to have clobbered SchoolTool installation

Here is the output of the start-cando.py script I found in the checkout directory:

sav@sav-laptop:~/cando$ ./start-cando.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./start-cando.py", line 39, in ?
    import schooltool.app.main
ImportError: No module named schooltool.app.main

Oh dear, sorry about that. We just had the CanDo sys admin document how he deploys their production servers, which don't have SchoolTool packages installed. I would say it currently at least takes some trickery to get both running at the same time. I'll update the documentation.

In the meantime, I'd make a copy of the schooltool database:

sudo cp /var/lib/schooltool/schooltool-2008-Data.fs ./

Should put a copy in the current directory. There's no particular reason to do this except to reassure yourself that you've got a copy of your data.

Then to reinstall schooltool, 'apt-get install schooltool-2008'

You might also need to 'apt-get install schooltool' (sorry I'm being a little sketchy, this is your 10:00 pm Friday night service).

We'll definitely get 'apt-get install cando' working later in the year.

Brilliant! I'm sorry to disturb you so late on a Friday night. It's a beautiful sunny autumn, Saturday lunch-time over here!

apt-get install schooltool-2008 installed for me the first time so I'll do that again. My database is safe and secure. I would have liked to have had a play with cando because some of our courses are competency based.

Cheers,

Laurie

Phew. Well, if you have access to a Linux box not running SchoolTool, it should work. ;-)

And it might be an easy fix. I'll ask on Monday.

Thanks for all the help Tom. I'm finding SchoolTool useful as a personal
record keeper and the support from you and your team has been fantastic.

Laurie

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> it should work. ;-)
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Hi!

I would suggest trying the following.

1) in cando-trunk/instance look at schooltool.ini and change the port from 7080 to 7081. (So the PPA installed schooltool instance can run on the normal port)
2) use make run instead of start-cando.py
3) check out http://localhost:7081

If you want it to be visible from off localhost change host from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0 in cando-trunk/instance/schooltool.ini

We're removing start-cando (it was old code from before we had start-schooltool-instance) now.

Thanks Jason, I'll look at that. I'm a bit worried that the make-ubuntu
script removes schooltool-2008 AND totem + totem-plugins.

Laurie

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Your question #65609 on SchoolTool changed:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/schooltool/+question/65609

Jason Straw posted a new comment:
Hi!

I would suggest trying the following.

1) in cando-trunk/instance look at schooltool.ini and change the port from
7080 to 7081. (So the PPA installed schooltool instance can run on the
normal port)
2) use make run instead of start-cando.py
3) check out http://localhost:7081

If you want it to be visible from off localhost change host from
127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0 in cando-trunk/instance/schooltool.ini

We're removing start-cando (it was old code from before we had start-
schooltool-instance) now.

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You received this question notification because you are a direct subscriber
of the question.

OK, so nothing should be removing schooltool-2008, I'll ask Tom and Ignas why make ubuntu-environment tries to remove schooltool-2008.

but, if schooltool-2008 is installed, I think cando should be good to go without make ubuntu-environment.

Jason

> but, if schooltool-2008 is installed, I think cando should be good to go
> without make ubuntu-environment.

That explains it, looked at it now...

python-lxml build-dep conflicts with a core python package -
python-pkg-resources

so apt-get build-dep python-lxml in cando Makefile should be replaced with:

apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev python-pyrex

instead. Schooltool-2008 does not depend on these, and they are
required do build lxml.

CanDo has been updated to fix the problems above.