less executable path not configured properly

[kartoch]

I'm trying to generate the documentation but I've the following error:

kartoch@kartoch-ThinkPad-T500:~/opt/python/hyde-docs$ ~/opt/python/hyde/bin/hyde gen
 17:00:58 hyde.engine Reading site configuration from [/home/kartoch/opt/python/hyde-docs/site.yaml]
 17:00:58 hyde.engine Reading site contents
 17:00:58 hyde.engine Generating site at [/home/kartoch/opt/python/hyde-docs]
 17:00:58 hyde.engine Configuring the template environment
 17:00:58 hyde.engine Generating site to [/home/kartoch/opt/python/hyde-docs/deploy]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/kartoch/opt/python/hyde/bin/hyde", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('hyde==0.8.3', 'console_scripts', 'hyde')()
  File "/home/kartoch/opt/python/hyde/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hyde/main.py", line 10, in main
    Engine().run()
  File "/home/kartoch/opt/python/hyde/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hyde/engine.py", line 38, in run
    super(Engine, self).run(args)
  File "/home/kartoch/opt/python/hyde/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/commando.py", line 198, in run
    args.run(self, args)
  File "/home/kartoch/opt/python/hyde/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hyde/engine.py", line 115, in gen
    gen.generate_all(incremental=incremental)
  File "/home/kartoch/opt/python/hyde/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hyde/generator.py", line 204, in generate_all
    self.__generate_node__(self.site.content, incremental)
  File "/home/kartoch/opt/python/hyde/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hyde/generator.py", line 302, in __generate_node__
    self.__generate_resource__(resource, incremental)
  File "/home/kartoch/opt/python/hyde/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hyde/generator.py", line 332, in __generate_resource__
    resource, text) or text
  File "/home/kartoch/opt/python/hyde/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hyde/plugin.py", line 44, in __call_plugins__
    res = function(*args)
  File "/home/kartoch/opt/python/hyde/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hyde/ext/plugins/less.py", line 84, in text_resource_complete
    less = self.app
  File "/home/kartoch/opt/python/hyde/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hyde/plugin.py", line 95, in __getattribute__
    return super(Plugin, self).__getattribute__(name)
  File "/home/kartoch/opt/python/hyde/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hyde/plugin.py", line 262, in app
    self.executable_not_found_message)
jinja2.exceptions.TemplateError: less executable path not configured properly. This plugin expects `less.app` to point to the `less` executable.

I'm on Ubuntu 11.10 and less is available in my system.

[davefowler]

Same issue. Any help on this would be great. Has this only been run on a mac? Where is the dependency on less.app and what is it used for?

Would be great to be able to help out with these docs.

[davefowler]

Note, you can remove the less plugin from the site.yaml file to get the files to serve, though it will be missing the needed css.

[navilan]

Somehow missed this issue before. Docs use the less css compiler: https://github.com/cloudhead/less.js/

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If you have nodejs and npm, you can install it with npm install less