When I installed Python's setuptools I absent mindedly tacked on a -- prefix path I had been using on another machine:
sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg --prefix=/opt/python2.7.2 Now after this blunder when I try to install pip I get the following error: [root@kkdev src]# easy_install pip Searching for pip Best match: pip 1.0.2 Processing pip-1.0.2-py2.7.egg pip 1.0.2 is already the active version in easy-install.pth Installing pip script to /usr/bin error: /usr/bin/pip: No such file or directory What's happening is that a symbolic link is being created that points to the folder I specified in the --prefix path which is obviously wrong: [root@kkdev src]# ls -al /usr/bin/pip lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Nov 5 17:01 /usr/bin/pip -> /opt/ python2.7.2/bin/pip I deleted this link and then re-ran the setuptools installer and specified the correct prefix (my Python install lives in /usr/lib/ python2.7): sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg --prefix=/usr I then re-ran easy_install pip and it looked like I'd fixed my finger trouble. However when I went to install virtualenv I encountered the same problem: [root@kkdev src]# pip install virtualenv [uninteresting installer output snipped] Installing virtualenv script to /usr/bin error: /usr/bin/virtualenv: No such file or directory Again the wrong path is being used to create the symbolic link to where virtualenv is installed: [root@kkdev src]# ls -al /usr/bin/virtualenv lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Nov 5 17:01 /usr/bin/virtualenv -> /opt/ python2.7.2/bin/virtualenv (I'm running Fedora 15 32bit which has Python 2.7.1 installed out of the box) How do I fix/repair this permanently? Thanks Kevin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
