whoosh issues with django forum apps

Question

Trying to get some forum apps up and running. Cant get anything to work. With djangobb forums, and the pybb-demo im getting

The 'whoosh' backend requires the installation of 'Whoosh'. Please refer to the documentation.

Have downloaded haystack as well as whoosh seperatley and loaded them via python setup.py install, but it dosent seem all there. I cant find the extra missing files on the web either, so i though id ask what this issue could be brought about by.

When i install

install_dir /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/

It finishes doing its thing. But in that install dir there is no whoosh folder. The closest thing is django_whoosh-0.0.0-py2.6.egg. But the only py file init is a managers.py

I also get

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): Whoosh in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages

Its not, its just not there, what the?

Answer 1

if you are sure whoosh is installed, you should check the install directory path and make sure it's included as part of the project libraries.

Using the django shell:

import sys
sys.path

That should display the available library paths for the project. I use whoosh and mine appears over there.