Installing Bika LIMS on Linux

 My brother wanted this for work. I am documenting for 
WARNING This procedure is incomplete and it DID NOT WORK!

1. download  and extract the latest zip https://github.com/bikalims/bika.lims/releases
 seems like bika is dead as per their github page. I got version 3.2.1rc2
2. run in terminal // probably needed dependicies for plone

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libbz2-dev libjpeg62-dev libz-dev

sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev wv poppler-utils


3. download latest stabe version of plone

https://plone.org/download

download  the unified installer (current v 5.1 did not work; try 4.3.11)

4.  extract and run insall.sh
select the isntall location and give a good admin pwd

You should see this once complete'
 
######################  Installation Complete  ######################

5.edit file buildout.cfg

eggs =
    Plone
    Pillow
    bika.lims

6: run bin/buildout
Ended with errors
7. ./bin/plonectl start
Ended with errors

4. Run this cmd after extracting it

sudo ./install.sh --target=/home/rajz/install/Plone43 --password=proot standalone

 
 5. Go to install location to edit the buildout.cfg config file /home/rajz/install/Plone43/zinstance ; add the hightligted line and save!  (you may use sudo nano buildout.cfg)
...
need-sudo = yes
index=https://pypi.python.org/simple/
--

eggs =
    Plone
    Pillow
    bika.lims

6.run sudo -u plone_buildout bin/buildout
//ignore dep erros

7. sudo bin/plonectl start
// errors