Peter's Blog 3.3.2004

On a new whim, installing plone on oldlap server.

On a new whim, installing plone on oldlap server. This is a 'content management system' running on top of Zope. I played zope once but found it mind-bogglingly complex and underdocumented. Plone may be better: Nasa use it for their mars rover website.

I like the idea of it being all in python: ultimately I could hack it in any direction. Also zope allows web-based development so I can centralise my efforts.

Using apt-get to install. I had to point it at an unstable woody archive. I told it to apt-get install plone and its decided to upgrade loads of stuff.

Had a problem with a cache overflowing that I had to fix by creating a apt.conf file and adding::

APT::Cache-Limit 10000000;