Installation on fedora 21 works with some manual steps (setup.py install seems broken?)

Here are my steps for installing everpad on fedora 21. setup.py install did not complete (see below), so there are some manual steps to get everpad running.

yum install python-pyside-devel python-pyside python-BeautifulSoup \
  python-keyring python-sqlalchemy python-oauth2 python-magic \
  python-html2text python-regex python-setuptools gtk2-engines-devel \
  gtk2-engines qt-devel dbus-python-devel dbus-python qt-devel

qt-devel provides qmake-qt4 but Everpad is searching for qmake. Therefore, I created a symlink:

ln -s /usr/bin/qmake-qt4 /usr/bin/qmake

Installation procedure:

git clone https://github.com/nvbn/everpad.git
cd everpad
python setup.py install

The installation breaks at this point:

...
Installing everpad script to /usr/bin

Installed /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/everpad-2.5dev-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for everpad==2.5dev
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 114, in <module>
    'everpad/specific/kde/everpad_runner.py',
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/install.py", line 73, in run
    self.do_egg_install()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/install.py", line 101, in do_egg_install
    cmd.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 358, in run
    self.easy_install(spec, not self.no_deps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 574, in easy_install
    return self.install_item(None, spec, tmpdir, deps, True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 625, in install_item
    self.process_distribution(spec, dist, deps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 671, in process_distribution
    [requirement], self.local_index, self.easy_install
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 572, in resolve
    requirements.extend(dist.requires(req.extras)[::-1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2240, in requires
    dm = self._dep_map
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2225, in _dep_map
    for extra,reqs in split_sections(self._get_metadata(name)):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2666, in split_sections
    for line in yield_lines(s):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1926, in yield_lines
    for ss in strs:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2254, in _get_metadata
    for line in self.get_metadata_lines(name):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1316, in get_metadata_lines
    return yield_lines(self.get_metadata(name))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1308, in get_metadata
    return self._get(self._fn(self.egg_info,name))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1372, in _get
    return self.loader.get_data(path)
zipimport.ZipImportError: bad local file header in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/everpad-2.5dev-py2.7.egg

Manual steps:

cp /data/everpad-app.service /data/everpad-provider.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/.

Now you must restart dbus-daemon. Best to reboot yet, killing dbus-daemon manually kicks you off your gnome desktop session.

At last copy the neccessary icons to their destination:

cp data/everpad-black.png data/everpad-mono.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/
cp data/everpad-file.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/actions/.
cp data/everpad-file.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/
cp data/everpad.png data/everpad-lens.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/
cp data/everpad*.png /usr/share/pixmaps/.
cp data/editor-icons/* /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/actions/.

cp data/everpad.desktop /usr/share/applications/.

Using topicons on Fedora with Gnome is really, really recommended.

Remaining problems:

One missing package is gtk2-engines-pixbuf, i can't find any alternative, so Everpad did not show pictures within notes.
The synchronisation stops at the first note which contains pictures. The systray dialog show "always syncing", everpad-provider.log shows

2015-01-01 15:57:20,118 - everpad-provider - DEBUG - expected a character buffer object

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Installation on fedora 21 works with some manual steps (setup.py install seems broken?) #454