Mike Driscoll wrote: > On Feb 3, 3:24 pm, David Sevilla <sevil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Apologies if this was answered somewhere else, I have not found >> anything similar anywhere. >> >> I have SUSE 11.0 and I am trying to install a program called >> mnemosyne. I need easy_install for this, for which I installed >> setuptools through yast2. But when I run easy_install for the final >> installation, I get an error like this: >> >> [...] >> [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* >> there, and I am not even able to find the site.py file mentioned in >> site-packages/README. I suspect that I have two concurrent >> installations or something like that (I do have python and python2.5 >> inside /usr/lib). How do I untangle this? Or at least how do I get >> easy_install to find the right place? >> >> Thanks a lot, >> >> David > > I would get setuptools from the official source: > > http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools > > Install it using the python of your choice. You may have to pass a > full path to the python "binary" to make sure you're using the right > one. So, after downloading and decompressing the setuptools package, > change directory into it. Then run something like this: > > /path/to/python setup.py install > > I think that will work...of course, your mileage may vary. I haven't > used SUSE. Doesn't SUSE have a package manager like Ubuntu's apt-get? > You might be able to just use that too..
Easier still: wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py /path/to/python ez_setup.py rm ez_setup.py regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
