2005/11/11, Martin Skøtt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The root of the problem was that distutils, as installed by python2.4, > wasn't configured to know of /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages. > > Would it be possible for the python2.X packages to include the > necessary /usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/distutils.cfg file to avoid > others having the same problem?
This is a very good idea. We don't want site-local installation to be installed under /usr, do we? But that's what the current default is. So in my opinion, there should be: $ cat /usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/distutils.cfg [install] prefix = /usr/local (Please use prefix, not install_lib as OP suggested. This should handle install_scripts, install_man and all other distutils options.) shipped by Debian Python packages. This should solve all easy_install related problems, as well as python setup.py install problems, provided the user in question has write access to /usr/local (by being a member of staff group, for example). Seo Sanghyeon
