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I’ve been on an intermittent quest for the past few weeks to build Zenoss 2.1 on my Mac PowerBook G4. Happily, that quest has a successful ending, and I’m willing to share a short recipe for installing Zenoss on a Mac PowerBook using OS X, though I expect these instructions apply to Intel based Mac users too.

Update 01/10/2008: These instructions apply OS X 10.4 Tiger and Zenoss 2.1.2.

Before I continue, I’ll answer the question, “Why do you want to build Zenoss on your PowerBook, Mike?” Well, mostly because I don’t have an Intel Mac, and I need a mobile machine that I can run Zenoss on for demos, evaluations, and just for fun. My mobile machine happens to be a PowerBook. I’m sure this information transcends architectures, which makes it worth sharing.

These steps should get you started:

1. Install MacPorts.
2. Install Xcode from the OS X install DVD or from Apple so you get a build environment.
3. Install Python2.4 and SWIG using MacPorts:
   sudo /opt/local/bin/port python24
sudo /opt/local/bin/port swig
4. Create your Zenoss user via the System Preferences
5. Set up the Zenoss users path.
• Edit /Users/zenoss/.bash_login and add:

  export ZENHOME=/usr/local/zenoss
  export PYTHONPATH=$ZENHOME/lib/python
  export PATH=$ZENHOME/bin:usr/local/mysql/bin:/opt/local/bin:$PATH

6. Continue with the Zenoss build instructions, which can be found in the INSTALL.TXT file of the Zenoss source.

Happy monitoring.