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From the pootle website:

The Translate Toolkit and Pootle provide a way to make it easier to localise using standards based file formats (PO and XLIFF). Our goal is to make the life of a localiser easier, making it easy to localise, creating high quality tools that help you to work quicker and with higher quality.

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Pootle and translation toolkit require python 2.4. SME 7.3 come with python 2.3 configured to run yum and other system utilities. Then you must install python 2.4 without affecting the original python 2.3

Because python 2.4 installation will set as default, you must install in one step all rpms, before yum stop working. Don't worry about that. New python 2.4 come with a dependency package named "alternatives". With alternatives you can set the default python will system be use. For this intallation, will we not utilize alternatives, and will we restore the original links. If you know a better way to use alternatives and make python 2.3 as default, and 2.4 automatic, please share with us.

Install

Download all rpms to one directory:

wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/nhall/sme7/contribs/pootle/rpm/elementtree-1.2.7-1.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/nhall/sme7/contribs/pootle/rpm/jToolkit-0.7.8-1.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/nhall/sme7/contribs/pootle/rpm/kid-0.9.6-1.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/nhall/sme7/contribs/pootle/rpm/Pootle-1.0.2-1.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/nhall/sme7/contribs/pootle/rpm/translate-toolkit-1.0.1-1.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/nhall/sme7/contribs/pootle/python2.4/rpm/alternatives-0.2.0rc3-9.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/nhall/sme7/contribs/pootle/python2.4/rpm/python24-2.4.2-10.el4.pyv.i386.rpm

Install with yum:

yum localinstall *.rpm

Fixing alternatives

If you run python at command line, you will see version 2.4, and you can't use yum anymore, because yum is installed under python 2.3

To fixing, run the following command:

/usr/sbin/alternatives-helper --remove python24
mv /usr/bin/python.alternatives_save /usr/bin/python
mv /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz.alternatives_save /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz

Now you have again python 2.3 running

Stast pootle server

Manually you can start pootle server as indicate in pootle site:

python2.4 /usr/bin/PootleServer --port=8081 --autorestart -B < /dev/null >> /var/log/pootle 2>&1

If you make init scrypt as say ( http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/service_scripts ) share with us and then we make the service rpm