Jamie the command you quoted "python setup.py install" -- on my system I have to run it as root or else do "sudo python setup.py install" -- will copy the files for that module to the appropriate location.
If the module you are interested in is in pure Python, with no c-code, you can often just make it available anywhere on your PYTHONPATH. In any event, the most common place that extra stuff gets installed is in your "site-packages" folder. On my Ubuntu machine that is located in two places: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages You can always find the location on your system by asking Python itself: >>> import sys >>> for p in sys.path: ... print p ... /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/lxml-2.1beta2-py2.5-linux-x86_64.egg /usr/lib/python25.zip /usr/lib/python2.5 /usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2 /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gst-0.10 /var/lib/python-support/python2.5 /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0 /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0 Here is an example of what I mentioned earlier about installing pure Python modules... I have both django and report lab checked out of the repository and just put symbolic links to them in the /usr/local/lib/ python2.5/site-packages folder: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages$ pwd /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages$ ls -l total 12 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 34 2007-12-28 10:29 django -> /home/gordy/ projects/python/django -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 548 2008-02-05 14:14 moin-1.6.1.egg-info -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 548 2008-02-05 13:38 moin-1.6.1-py2.5.egg- info drwxr-sr-x 25 root staff 4096 2008-02-05 13:38 MoinMoin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 37 2008-01-15 10:41 reportlab -> /home/ gordy/projects/python/reportlab Works great. --gordon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
