Re: the correct way to install python packages as non root user in non default path

2009-04-21 Thread News123
Danke Diez, easy_install without 'install' works better :-) . As as you indicated: Virtualenv installs cleanly in a separate directory named virtualenv-1.3.3-py2.5.egg, So I removed the --prefix option and installed it in the default path. By the way: Adding the word 'install' wasn't inspired b

Re: the correct way to install python packages as non root user in non default path

2009-04-21 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
News123 wrote: > Hi Alex, > > > Thanks a lot. Reading the description this sounds to be the right thing. > > > But now I'm stuck installing virtualenv as a user as this seems to be no > ubunbtu package: > > > export PYTHONPATH=/opt/newpymod/lib/python2.5/site-packages > mkdir -p $PYTHONPATH

Re: the correct way to install python packages as non root user in non default path

2009-04-21 Thread News123
Hi Alex, Thanks a lot. Reading the description this sounds to be the right thing. But now I'm stuck installing virtualenv as a user as this seems to be no ubunbtu package: export PYTHONPATH=/opt/newpymod/lib/python2.5/site-packages mkdir -p $PYTHONPATH easy_install --prefix /opt/newpymod inst

Re: the correct way to install python packages as non root user in non default path

2009-04-20 Thread alex23
On Apr 21, 8:32 am, News123 wrote: > I'm having an Ubuntu host, but want to (experimentally) > install some modules, which are newer than the Ubuntu ones > (distros lag always a little behind and some tools need newer versions.) > > What would be a clean way to do this? I think virtualenv will he

the correct way to install python packages as non root user in non default path

2009-04-20 Thread News123
Hi, I'm having an Ubuntu host, but want to (experimentally) install some modules, which are newer than the Ubuntu ones (distros lag always a little behind and some tools need newer versions.) What would be a clean way to do this? I want to be sure, that any 'special hacks' on my host are cleanly