Wolfgang Reutz's Blog

Dependencies

get and install libxml2

download sources for libxml2 and libxslt from http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html
build and install

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./configure --with-python=/<pathtoyourpythonbinary>/python
make
sudo make install

Install kaa

first get kaa from svn:

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svn co svn://svn.freevo.org/kaa/trunk kaa

i had to disable the building of the shared memory module on OS X because it wouldn’t build. As it seems kaa.metadata works without the shared memory module, but maybe someone knows how to get this built on OS X with the shm module.
go into kaa/base and edit setup.py by changing (line 36) this

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extensions.append( Extension('shmmodule', ['src/extensions/shmmodule.c']) )

to this

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#extensions.append( Extension('shmmodule', ['src/extensions/shmmodule.c']) )

until now the support for cdrom drives only works on Linux, so i disabled it on OS X.
now go to kaa/metadata and edit setup.py:
change this

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ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ]

to

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#ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ]
ext_modules = [ ifoparser ]

and change this

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ext_modules = [ cdrom ]

to

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#ext_modules = [ cdrom ]
ext_modules = [ ]

now go back to kaa/base and install the kaa.base package:

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sudo python setup.py install

now go to kaa/metadata and install the kaa.metadata package:

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sudo python setup.py install

you may use a different python instance, like /opt/python24/bin/python or something else if you don’t wanna install kaa into the default python on OS X.

I always had the problem, that i could resize (drag with my mouse) images inside kupu, but when i save the document the image has its original size

Today i found the solution to this problem here

To enable kupu to keep the resize information upon save you have to add width and height to the style whitelist in the kupu preferences in your site preferences. Your styles whitelist should look like this:

text-align
list-style-type
float
width
height

that did the trick and now resizing images is working