Venus runtests error

[Zack]

Hi,

I have been using Planet for a while aggregating blogs written in Urdu language at http://www.urduweb.org/planet/.

To show only those posts written in Urdu (since a lot of the Urdu bloggers have bilingual blogs) I hacked in some regular expression code which counts the ratio of the range of Urdu Unicode characters to the total length of the post content and keeps those posts above a certain arbitrary threshold.

Now I am thinking of moving to Venus since it looks a lot more promising with filtering and handling tag soup etc.

However, doing python runtests.py gives the following error:

xsltproc is not available => can't test XSLT templates
libxml2 is not available => can't test xpath_sifter
Redland RDF is not available => can't test FOAF reading lists
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ERROR: test_xslt_filter (tests.test_filter_xslt.XsltFilterTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/.bartholimew/zajmal/venus/tests/test_filter_xslt.py", line 13, in test_xslt_filter
    output = shell.run(config.filters()[0], input, mode="filter")
  File "/home/.bartholimew/zajmal/venus/planet/shell/__init__.py", line 49, in run
    return module.run(template_resolved, doc, None, options)
  File "/home/.bartholimew/zajmal/venus/planet/shell/xslt.py", line 68, in run
    stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/subprocess.py", line 558, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/subprocess.py", line 991, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

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Ran 158 tests in 3.627s

FAILED (errors=1)

I am on a shared server on Dreamhost using Debian Sarge and Python 2.4.1.

What does this error mean? And does this mean I can't use Venus?

Thanks for your help.

-- 
Zack Ajmal
http://www.zackvision.com/weblog/