Gourmet Recipe Manager

I managed to get this recipe manager installed last night. The instructions for Windows users are pretty old and out of date (the primary audience for this software is in the linux world). But I managed to get it installed and running nevertheless, and if you're reasonably technical, you should be able to do it as well. Once I got the app running for the first time, it immediately appeared to download a boatload of data, which I think was a database of nutritional information for ingredients as well as ingredient/category mappings, and probably other stuff that I've not figured out yet.

From the little I've seen of this app, it looks pretty impressive. I'll keep experimenting and post my findings here.

Here are some hopefully helpful hints if you want to give it a try along with me. I installed all of the items on the "Required Packages" list:

1. I already had Python 2.5 installed.
2. The Glade runtime environment was trivial to install.
3. PyGTK was a little more complicated. Since these instructions were written, it looks like the project was split into three parts, and I think you need all three (which are trivial to install). I installed the latest versions of each for Python 2.5. Once you get all three installed, add the bin/ directory from the GTK into your path and bring up a python command shell (just run python.exe to do this) then type 'import gtk' and if you don't get any errors, you're probably good.
1. PyCairo
2. PyGObject
3. PyGTK
4. PyWin32 install was trivial.
5. PIL was also trivial.
6. PyRTF is python sources, which you'll need to install. Copy the directory to a drive somewhere, then bring up a command shell and CD into the directory you just created. You should find a setup.py file there. Run 'python setup.py install' to install. This is what I'll call a "python install" from now on.
7. ReportLab also requires a "python install", so do the same thing.
8. PySqlite2 - the website is down as I write this, so I don't recall what type of install it requires, but I don't remember having trouble with it...
9. Metakit - this one I couldn't quite figure out how to install, but it appears to be an optional thing.

Once you've installed all of the prerequisites, it's easy to install Gourmet Recipe Manager. It's also a python install, and once you've run the setup.py script, you can launch the program as described in section 3 of the instructions.