update ez_setup.py

It looks like your underlying Python is 2.4.x. This is too old. Mailman 3 requires at least Python 2.6. This is a bug in setup.py to not detect your Python version until it's too late. Setup.py was fixed at rev 6796.

Thanks. I'll go upgrade Python.

I've installed 2.6, but am now getting this error from line 19 in setup.py

 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 510, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

What should I install?

One thing I've noticed is I cannot get this version of setup tools:
setuptools-0.6c5-py2.6.egg

It's 06c11 now. Should I modify the source to go grab the latest version?

You need to replace the ez_setup.py in the MM 3 distribution with the latest version from http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py.

Replaced file. Got these errors (attached)

These errors are all from Apache and relate to files that have nothing to do with Mailman. Apache's issue is the directory (folder) named /*pg3. It doesn't like the unescaped '*'.

I don't know what's going on here. Mailman's setup.py does not invoke Apache. Did you attach the correct file?

Also, This appears to be Windows. I don't know if you can successfully install Mailman on Windows.

I am installing on Red Hat EL 5 WS.

I went to the link you gave me, copied the text into a file of the same name, and preserved the file in the load directory.

I'm attaching what I fetched at the link you provided.

Am I supposed to be root or mailman when installing?

I've re-installed everything, put the latest ez_setup.py in the directory, and got this error log.

The ez_setup.py is fine. That is not the issue.

You should install (python setup.py install) as root.

Is the attachment at comment #6 the correct file? It is an Apache error_log from a startup of a 'Win 32' version of Apache.

My comment #11 was written before I saw your Comment #10.

There are problems with some of the message catalogs. Also see the comment thread at https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/457649

See the last 6 lines in the log attached at comment #10. You need to give setup a command. e.g.

python setup.py build

or

python setup.py install

not just

python setup.py

Mark:

Thank you for your help. It's installed. I've got to find documentation, but that's a different issue.

ez_setup.py updated in r6808

Please note that for the alphas, it might not be best to install the code. Instead, use zc.buildout to create a local copy in your development directory. You should not do this as root:

% python2.6 bootstrap.py
% bin/buildout