Thanks Timo,
I'm wanting to install gnue-forms on my phone for some database work.

When I didn't have mxdate time installed at all, I would run the

gnue-forms installation script and it would complain, predictably,

that I hadn't met the requirements.
I apt-get installed it onto my ubuntu laptop and copied the produced

files onto the phone, the application now tells me that I have the

*wrong* mxdate time installed:
root@om-gta02:~/gnue-forms-0.6.1# python setup.py install

running install

checking GNUe Common Library

checking mxDateTime library

*** You don't have the (right) mxDateTime binaries installed !

---

Could not import the mx.DateTime package.

Please install mxDateTime from the mxtools suite.

The file 'INSTALL' contains more information about dependencies.

root@om-gta02:~/gnue-forms-0.6.1#
I can produce the same results with:
root@om-gta02:~/gnue-forms-0.6.1# python

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct 14 2008, 01:51:25)

[GCC 4.1.2] on linux2

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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>>> import mx.DateTime

*** You don't have the (right) mxDateTime binaries installed !

Traceback (most recent call last):

 File "", line 1, in

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mx/DateTime/__init__.py",

line 8, in

   from DateTime import *

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mx/DateTime/DateTime.py",

line 9, in

   from mxDateTime import *

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mx/DateTime/mxDateTime/__init__.py",

line 13, in

   raise ImportError, why

ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mx/DateTime/mxDateTime/mxDateTime.so:

cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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>>>

I see that /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mx/DateTime/mxDateTime/mxDateTime.so

is a binary file. Perhaps I could replace it with a compiled binary

from the Openmoko debian distribution and it would work? All I would

have to do then is get Debian to work on my openmoko ;-)
Cheers,
Joseph
2008/12/12 Timo Juhani Lindfors :

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> "Joseph Reeves"  writes:

>> Has anyone had any joy installing Egenix mx base on openmoko?

>> Specifically I need mxDateTime, but I'm not having any luck getting

>> anything installed:

>

> Not sure how much this helps with openmoko distro but with debian

> mxdatetime seems to install just fine on the phone:

>

> lindi@ginger$ sudo apt-get install python-egenix-mxdatetime

> Reading package lists... Done

> Building dependency tree

> Reading state information... Done

> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

>  libdrm2

> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

> The following extra packages will be installed:

>  python-egenix-mxtools

> Suggested packages:

>  python-egenix-mxdatetime-dbg python-egenix-mxtools-dbg

> The following NEW packages will be installed:

>  python-egenix-mxdatetime python-egenix-mxtools

> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

> Need to get 1178kB of archives.

> After this operation, 2023kB of additional disk space will be used.

> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

> Get:1 http://ftp.fi.debian.org unstable/main python-egenix-mxtools 3.1.1-1 [512kB]

> Get:2 http://ftp.fi.debian.org unstable/main python-egenix-mxdatetime 3.1.1-1 [667kB]

> Fetched 1178kB in 3min47s (5177B/s)

> debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed

> Selecting previously deselected package python-egenix-mxtools.

> (Reading database ... 36487 files and directories currently installed.)

> Unpacking python-egenix-mxtools (from .../python-egenix-mxtools_3.1.1-1_armel.deb) ...

> Selecting previously deselected package python-egenix-mxdatetime.

> Unpacking python-egenix-mxdatetime (from .../python-egenix-mxdatetime_3.1.1-1_armel.deb) ...

> Setting up python-egenix-mxtools (3.1.1-1) ...

> Setting up python-egenix-mxdatetime (3.1.1-1) ...

>

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