[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all. > > We don't have admin privs on our Windows boxes, but I'd like to be able > to install a package built using distutils. I was able to install > Python without admin, but when I tried to run the installer for this > package I'm trying to install, I get a message saying that I need admin > privs. > > Is there a way around this? Why can't it just put things in > C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages like a good little installer? > > Do I need to put a service call in to our admins to do this? > > Thanks.
You can use the --home switch to specify a local directory to install in, e.g.: % python setup.py install --home=. -Jesper -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list