On Feb 3, 11:24 pm, Mike Driscoll <kyoso...@gmail.com> 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/setuptoolshttp://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.. > > Mike
Actually, a manual installation is probably the best thing to do, since I did use the SUSE package manager (yast2) to install setuptools and never had a chance to choose installation paths. Thanks, David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
