ReadyNAS Ultra as seafile server

chaug wrote:
I was able to install python-simplejson with apt-get but when I try any of the other ones, I get an "unmet dependencies" error because the versions available via apt-get depend on lower versions of python. For example: The following packages have unmet dependencies: python-setuptools: Depends: python (< 2.6) but 2.7.2-7 is to be installed E: Broken packages Is there any way to get around this?

You can install setuptools manually:

cd ~
mkdir py_tmp
cd py_tmp
wget --no-check-certificate https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-2.0.tar.gz
tar -xvf setuptools-2.0.tar.gz
cd setuptools-2.0
python setup.py install

Then you can install PIP, which will make it easier to find and install python packages in the future:

cd ~/py_tmp
wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py

The other two packages could be installed via pip -- i think "pip install PIL" and "pip install MySQL-Python" will get the right files -- but they'll want to be compiled by gcc-4.3, which probably isn't on your NAS... So you can try downloading and installing the Debian packages manually using dpkg instead. It'll be tedious and awkward, but maybe possible. Here's a python-imaging package that won't complain about python 2.7:
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/python-imaging
and here's a python-mysqldb:
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/python-mysqldb
I haven't checked, though, to see whether those packages will have other dependency problems.