SoullessAutomaton comments on Open Thread: April 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ciphergoth 03 April 2009 05:00:43PM 2 points [-]

I'm good at Python but I'm having trouble getting the code running. If it's not an abuse of the site I might put up a top-level post for people interested in hacking on lesswrong to find each other and help each other out. Are there enough of us for that?

I got stuck trying to install Postgres 8.2 on my Intrepid machine - the advice I could find online mentions snapshot.debian.org but that seems to be broken :-(

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 03 April 2009 06:33:18PM 1 point [-]

I had some difficulties with it as well but I seem to have the code working locally now. I'd be happy to help others get it working as much as I can.

Comment author: ciphergoth 03 April 2009 06:41:02PM 1 point [-]

What OS did you get it running under, and how did you get the right version of PostgreSQL installed?

Comment author: Emile 03 April 2009 07:45:52PM 1 point [-]

I got it working on my MacBook, using PostgreSQL 8.2. When installing psycopg I had originally installed it for the wrong version of PostgreSQL (8.3), so I had to uninstall it and reinstall it with the right version.

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 03 April 2009 06:49:23PM 1 point [-]

Gentoo Linux, and by using package-specific flags in the Portage package manager to force specific versions for stuff.

I seem to recall there were versioning issues with some Python packages as well, and a bit of modification needed in the example.ini file.