I've been using the python-nltk package on Ubuntu, but I need ntlk 3.0 now. I used 'sudo aptitude purge python-nltk' to get rid of my existing installation, & followed instructions on the nltk website [1] starting at step 4 (since I already have python-pip & python-numpy packages installed).
$ sudo pip install -U I couldn't get it to work, until I realized that the permissions & ownership on /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages were 'drwx--S--- root staff'. A 'chmod -R a+rX' on that directory seems to have fixed it. Is it normal for sudo pip install to set the permissions that way, or did I do something wrong? [1] http://www.nltk.org/install.html -- Master Foo once said to a visiting programmer: "There is more Unix-nature in one line of shell script than there is in ten thousand lines of C." --- Eric Raymond -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
