Running python setup.py develop on Ubuntu Natty doesn't work. PIL doesn't get compiled with jpeg or png support. This happens with both the virtualenv and buildout instructions.

Doing a Google search leads to the following interesting urls:

• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1751455
• http://www.isnull.com.ar/2011/05/solved-python-pil-ioerror-decoder-jpeg.html

This is a big deal because it means people using Ubuntu Natty can't run GNU MediaGoblin.

I add

[app:mediagoblin] ... db_port = 27017

to use a custom mongod port (it wasn't finding the running one and I don't know which is the default it tries).

I get

  File "/home/spaetz/src/mediagoblin/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.3.4-py2.7.egg/paste/deploy/util/fixtypeerror.py", line 57, in fix_call
    val = callable(*args, **kw)
  File "/home/spaetz/src/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/app.py", line 118, in paste_app_factory
    app_config.get('db_host'), app_config.get('db_port'))
  File "/home/spaetz/src/mediagoblin/eggs/mongokit-0.6-py2.7.egg/mongokit/connection.py", line 52, in __init__
    super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pymongo/connection.py", line 242, in __init__
    raise TypeError("port must be an instance of int")
TypeError: port must be an instance of int

I guess there is a missing int() wrapper somewhere.

The current docs show nicely how to set up a dev environment, however it is not clear how to set up the thing in a non-dev way (I guess that is the "deployment" docs, right?)

Here are some things to consider when writing this. I got it up and running in Ubuntu Maverick in a non-dev way. I had to install some things with "pip" and used the distribution packages whenever possible.

So stuff that needs documentation:

paster running on port 80 is not possible without having the whole thing running as root. Which will then require to also have celeryd running as root, as it needs to delete files that paster put there. I solved this in a very hackish way with "Capabilities" on Linux. Downside is, I had to grant /usr/bin/python the permission to access ports <1024. I achieved this with

sudo setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /usr/bin/python2.6

(not saying we should recommend that to anyone. I guess we will propose to run this as a local user on a nonpriviledged port and proxy it through nginx or so.

Anyway, it runs beautiful as www-data on my server now.