On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Manos Tsagias wrote:
I'm trying to install pyLucene on my home dir (I don't have root access to
the machine). I'm using the steps from
http://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/documentation/install.html:
1. pushd jcc
2. <edited setup.py to match my environment>
3. python setup.py build
4. python setup.py install --home=/my/home/dir
5. popd
6. <edited Makefile to match my environment>
7. make
8. make install
9. (PENDING) make test (look for failures)
Step 8 breaks when make tries to install on the system-wide python
repository. How can I change this? The JCC egg is correctly installed in my
home repository
Hi Manos,
You have several options:
1. I didn't know about the --home parameter to distutils' install command
so I just now added support for it. To use it:
- get the latest PyLucene and JCC from svn at
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/pylucene/trunk
- rebuild jcc and install it with --home as before
- in PyLucene's Makefile, set INSTALL_OPT to contain --home <dir>
2. Instead of using --home at all, consider setting up a virtual Python
environment via virtualenv.py instead:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv
It seems to be a more 'modern' approach to the whole separate python
environment approach.
- python virtualenv.py ~/_python
- ~/_python/bin/python jcc/setup.py build install
- edit PyLucene's Makefile to set PREFIX to $(HOME)/_python
- make
- make test
- make install
Andi..
