Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I still can't figure out the problem. Here's a sh session (started in bash):
sh-3.2$ which python /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python sh-3.2$ python EPD with Py2.5 (4.0.30002 ) -- http://www.enthought.com/epd Python 2.5.2 |EPD with Py2.5 4.0.30002 | (r252:60911, Oct 15 2008, 16:58:38) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Bennett Helm <bewih...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:28 AM, John Schulman <jos...@caltech.edu> wrote: >> I try to install Lyx 1.6.1 from the Mac OS X binary, and when I run >> the Lyx-installer I get the following error: >> AppleScript Error >> sh: python: command not found >> >> I definitely have python installed. My default version is from the >> enthought distribution (not the original Leopard installation) >> 'which python' typed into bash returns >> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python > > And that's a path you probably don't have set for sh (as opposed to > bash), which is why you're getting the error. > > The installer presupposes that you have default installations of tools > like python. You can either create a link for python in a folder > within your sh path or add your installation of python to the sh path > before running the installer. > > Bennett > >