[MM3-users] Re: Xapian error on RHEL9 - module 'xapian' has no attribute 'QueryParser'

Hi,

I installed Mailman 3 using the Virtual Installation guide on Rocky Linux 9, which as we all know 100% bug-for-bug compatible with RHEL.

I encountered the same issue when installing Xapian, but I managed to troubleshoot and get Method 1 working.

It's an issue with the xapian_wheel_builder.sh script. Somewhere in the script it executes a readelf command and pipes the output to grep RUNPATH, which in RHEL, RUNPATH is RPATH.

I modified the script with the following and it was able to complete successfully producing the needed xapian-1.4.29-cp312-cp312-linux_x86_64.whl file. Also, don't forget to create the xapian_index directory.

sed -i 's/RUNPATH/RPATH/' xapian_wheel_builder.sh
bash xapian_wheel_builder.sh -p /usr/bin/python3.12 1.4.29
mkdir -p /opt/mailman/web/xapian_index

-German