On Feb 3, 11:30 pm, andrew cooke <and...@acooke.org> wrote: > the exact details of what you are reporting seem a bit odd, but i have > seen a similar error because i have tried to use my own account to > install the package, instead of using root. > > what i believe happens is that easy_install first tries to create the > "test" file, and then checks it is there. if it is not there, you get > an error. normally the error explains that you need to run as root, > but i assume in your case it doesn't - that seems odd, but it seemed > worth mentioning anyway. > > so if you have not done so, instead of > > python setup.py install > > do > > sudo python setup.py install > > more generally, i have used opensuse 11.0 and 11.1, and generally > things work just fine, so i would check you are following all the > instructions correctly. > > good luck, > andrew > > On Feb 3, 6:24 pm, David Sevilla <sevil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [...] > > [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site- > > packages/test-easy-install-3728.pth' > > > The installation directory you specified (via --install-dir, --prefix, > > or the distutils default setting) was: > > > /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ > > > This directory does not currently exist. [...] > > > From what I have gathered by reading here and there, it seems that the > > actual path for site-packages is not the place where it is being > > looked for. Sure enough, I have /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site- > > packages/ . What worries me is that there is no file called test* > >
I am quite new to Linux, and thought that by using yast2 there would be no user problems (I am asked for the root password). I will sudo it to see if it solves the problem. Thanks, David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
