Re: off topic: how to "start" Glom

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 17:15 +0100, Nicolas Chevreux wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First, I know that this mailing list is for developpers. I am sorry to 
> intrude, and I will make my stay short and as painless as possible.
>
> A total Linux newbie, I am trying to use Glom for the first time.

Do remember that Glom isn't finished. It can do interesting stuff, but
it's not quite ready for use.

>  I have 
> installed it on Ubuntu Breezy Badger, but can not get it to work at all. 
> When I start it up, it asks me for a password to connect to the 
> database, and never accepts any password, whatever I give him.
>
> I have created a user as described on the Glom website, and have 
> installed the gidentd package

I don't think I had to install gidentd when I set this up recently on
breezy. But it shouldn't hurt.

>  (but understood that the rest of the 
> "allowing access" paragraph on 
> http://www.glom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Initial_Postgres_Configuration 
> didn't concern people on Ubuntu).

On breezy, it seems that you do need to allow tcp connections.

>  Past this, I have not played at all 
> with Glom or PostGres.
>
> Can anybody tell me how to get past this password prompt, and start 
> working with Glom? I am sorry for this very newbie question.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Nicolas