How to install The Daily Pluck
 

Hi, I'm not sure how to install The Daily Pluck since it needs to be installed manually. Any help?

Thanks

Re: How to install The Daily Pluck
 

It's a series of Python scripts. Install Python 2.5 first then copy the script files over to the IT and run 'em.

Re: How to install The Daily Pluck
 

I have Python 2.5 installed but when I try to run the create script for instance, it doesn't know what to do with it.

Re: How to install The Daily Pluck
 

You should be able to run the script directly, you don't have to pass it as an argument to python.

This is what I did, although some of it may be unnecessary.

The Daily Pluck directory needs to be on the internal memory, the memory card is not mounted as executable.

You need to ensure that the scripts have the executable flag set ("chmod -R +x *" should do it, I think). You may need to set the user and group on the files to 'user' and 'users' (which probably involves being root).

You should be able to go to the directory in xterm and type
./CreateDaily.py
I found it did work if I wasn't in the current directory.

I also needed to manually start a connection for it to connect to websites.

When testing, back up the feelist.txt file and edit out most of the feed lines, as it takes a long time to build a plucker file from a large set of websites.

I'm not sure if there's a better way to run it without using xterm (for instance, from load-applet-run), maybe with a wrapper scipt to initiate the connection and cd to the directory.

There was talk a while ago of a cron-type app that could automatically start a connection and run apps, which would be great if you could have your feeds ready to read every morning.

Re: How to install The Daily Pluck
 

"You need to ensure that the scripts have the executable flag set ("chmod -R +x *" should do it, I think)." I did this as well as have the Daily folder on the internal memory and that got me farther. But i noticed I don't have a "CreatDaily.py", I have a "CreateDaily.sh". I typed "/home/user/MyDocs/Daily/CreateDaily.sh" in xterm and it gave me "Errno 2"'s saying python can't open "DailyPluck.py" and "PyPlucker/Spider.Py" because they do not exist. I checked and the files are in the folder. It also gave me this line, "rm: cannot remove './*.html' : No such file or directory."

Thanks for the help so far.

Re: How to install The Daily Pluck
 

Sorry, my mistake, I meant CreateDaily.sh

try changing to the Daily directory, then running the script, (that's the error I got when I tried running it for a different directory)
cd /home/user/MyDocs/Daily
./CreateDaily.sh

Re: How to install The Daily Pluck
 

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. How would I do this?

Re: How to install The Daily Pluck
 

Try entering those two lines I gave in my last post in xterm instead of the single line you tried before.

Re: How to install The Daily Pluck
 

That works, thanks.

Re: How to install The Daily Pluck
 

I am still having this error message:

Re: How to install The Daily Pluck
 

I know why I had this! Just delete the Umlauts in those python scripts. That will do the job!
I thing bothers me though, I can't click on the links.

Here is my PDB File: click