[ome-users] omero server 4.4 installation problem on mac OSX 10.7.5

[Oscar]

Hi Sebastien,

Thanks for your reply. See the outputs of these commands below.

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 4:32 AM, Sebastien Besson <s.besson at dundee.ac.uk>wrote:

>  Hi Oscar,
>
>  sorry for the delay.
>
>  On 6 Nov 2012, at 19:28, Oscar wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
> I followed the walk through to install omero server 4.4 in Mac Lion
> using homebrew.
> (
> http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero4/sysadmins/unix/server-install-homebrew.html
> )
> All the steps up to ./omero_homebrew.sh are done. However when I was
> trying to install omero using "brew install omero", it says "you must
> brew install git". But git was already installed, because when I did
> "brew install git", it said "git-1.8.0 already installed". Since it
> doesn't let me install omero with brew, I had to install it manually.
>
>
>  That is surprising indeed. Here are a couple of questions:
> - where is brew installed i.e. what is the output of `which -a brew` and
> `brew --prefix`?
>

'which -a brew'  : /usr/local/bin/brew
'brew --prefix' : /usr/local


> - which packages are installed, i.e what is the output of `brew list`?
>

'brew list' :
berkeley-db46 git mplayer python xz
ccache hdf5 ossp-uuid readline yasm
gdbm jpeg pkg-config sqlite zeroc-ice33
gfortran mcpp postgresql szip

>
>  After I compiled Omero, I tried to run the executable "omero" under
> /dist/bin and python suddenly crashed "Fatal Python error: Interpreter
> not initialized (version mismatch?)". I installed python 2.7 with
> brew. It seemed this error has to do with Ice. I installed Ice 3.4 by
> just downloading the precompiled Ice3.4 tar ball from omero website,
> unzip it and add the environment variables accordingly including
> ICE_HOME, etc. I remember seeing it somewhere Ice 3.4 might not be
> compatible with OSX 10.7. Do I have to download Ice-3.3 instead? How
> do I fix this problem?
>
>
>  Looks more like a pure Python issue here. What is the output of `which
> python` and
> `python -version` ? And do you have the Homebrew Python in your PATH and
> PYTHONPATH?
>

I agree that my python is messed up. I installed python multiple times,
including using brew install, and reinstalling Xcode. Now, the default
python is the one that comes with Xcode
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python". I actually
thought I should install python through brew this time. But when I did
"brew install python" I got error "python-2.7.3 already installed, it's
just not linked". Could python not linked be the problem that is causing
the version mismatch error? How do I link python if it was installed with
Xcode?

>
>  Re Ice, if you followed the Homebrew walkthrough instructions, Ice 3.3
> should have been
> installed as part of the dependencies (`brew --prefix zeroc-ice33`). We
>  are still having
> issues when installing OMERO with  Ice 3.4 using Homebrew. This is
> definitely on our todo list.
>

I did not realize ice 3.3 was installed automatically by brew. Apparently,
it was (indicated by 'brew list'). What I did earlier was download the
pre-compiled Ice-3.4.2 or Ice-3.3.1 and move the directory to /usr/local.
So I changed ICE_HOME to '/usr/local/opt/zeroc-ice33' and PYTHONPATH
accordingly and compiled omero again. However I still got the "interpreter
not initialized" error. I got the same error when I did "import Ice" from
python too. Also I tried to install omero with brew and it still asked to
brew install git first. Interestingly, I did "brew install omero43" and it
was actually trying to download the tarball instead of complaining about
git although the downloading stuck at 0.0% the whole time.


Do you have any idea what is still messed up here? Should I reinstall
everything from the beginning again? How do I clean up everything that was
installed by brew?

Thanks

Oscar

>
>  Sebastien
>
>
> ~O
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