Fred on Gentoo

I'm attempting to install FRED onto a Gentoo box. I'm using fred-manager to do the grunt work. I've started with a reasonably minimal install box (no X, etc) and so far - added: emerge -uv omniORB boost libdaemon postgresql bind bind-tools doxygen pyorbit tinyerp-server freefont-ttf I'm installing 'fred' into "/home/fred' - as user 'fred'. Near the top - I get:- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [much deleted] Generating python stubs from IDL files omniidl -Cbuild/stubs -bpython -Wbinline -Wbpackage=pyfred.idlstubs /home/fred/root/share/idl/fred/FileManager.idl /home/fred/root/share/idl/fred/Mailer.idl /home/fred/root/share/idl/fred/TechCheck.idl /home/fred/root/share/idl/fred/ZoneGenerator.idl omniidl: Could not import back-end 'python' omniidl: Maybe you need to use the -p option? omniidl: (The error was 'No module named python') error: Return status of omniidl is 256 /home/fred/download/src/fred-doc2pdf-2.0.0/setup.cfg.template has been copied to setup.cfg. Updating setup configuration file (setup.cfg). running install ImportError: No module named trml2pdf ImportError: No module named rml2pdf ImportError: No module named trml2pdf Module rml2pdf was found. Looking for folders 'freefont', 'truetype', 'freefont-ttf'... Found 1 folder(s). Found 12 fonts in folder '/usr/share/fonts/freefont-ttf'. Found font family 'FreeSans.ttf' Configuration file fred-doc2pdf.conf has been updated ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Has anyone installed FRED on Gentoo? What am I still missing? Python is installed - version 2.5.2 Is this error a problem? - I'm worried about "No module named python" ---------------- then... At the end of my output - I get:- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'doc/html/tab_b.gif' '/home/fred/root/share/doc/fred-mod-eppd/tab_b.gif' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'doc/html/tab_l.gif' '/home/fred/root/share/doc/fred-mod-eppd/tab_l.gif' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'doc/html/tab_r.gif' '/home/fred/root/share/doc/fred-mod-eppd/tab_r.gif' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'doc/html/tabs.css' '/home/fred/root/share/doc/fred-mod-eppd/tabs.css' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/fred/build/fred-mod-eppd' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/fred/build/fred-mod-eppd' /home/fred/download/src/fred-webadmin-3.1.1/setup.cfg.template has been copied to setup.cfg. Updating setup configuration file (setup.cfg). running install ImportError: No module named simplejson fred-webadmin needs simplejson module. Checking dependencies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Again - is this the natural end of the compilation? What is the "simplejson" module? ** Just found an installable package by that name ** Trying to start everything - I get:- $ ./fred-manager start ERROR: Starting PostgreSQL SUCCESS: Starting omniNames... SUCCESS: Starting FRED central registry CORBA servers... ERROR: Starting Apache... ./fred-manager: line 716: /home/fred/root/etc/init.d/fred-webadmin-server: No such file or directory ./fred-manager: line 11: /home/fred/root/etc/init.d/local_named: No such file or directory ERROR: Starting local named cannot chdir(/var/spool/cron), bailing out. /var/spool/cron: Permission denied cannot chdir(/var/spool/cron), bailing out. /var/spool/cron: Permission denied cannot chdir(/var/spool/cron), bailing out. /var/spool/cron: Permission denied My concerns here are - why would I even expect a non-root user to be able to start PostgreSQL?? - (which was already running) There seems to be an ugly mix between 'system' jobs and 'user' jobs? The same goes for Apache - only system users (or root) should be able to start (and stop) system processes. Same for the contents of /var/spool/cron. Should I actually copy all of "home/fred/root" to my machines "/" ??? lastly - the suggestion of just adding four packages (as well as generic tools) does seem misleading. Now the 'install' ends with:- ----------------------------------- Updating setup configuration file (setup.cfg). running install ImportError: No module named omniORB fred-webadmin needs omniORB module. Checking dependencies. ... and I'm pretty sure omniORB 4.0.5 is installed. -- . . ___. .__ Posix Systems - Sth Africa /| /| / /__ mje(a)posix.co.za - Mark J Elkins, SCO ACE, Cisco CCIE / |/ |ARK \_/ /__ LKINS Tel: +27 12 807 0590 Cell: +27 82 601 0496