SciPy won't install (Win98)

[Thomas Heller]

"Gary Pajer" <pajer at iname.com> wrote in message news:9uwB8.105409$Lj.7956538 at bin4.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com...
> I just downloaded the SciPy installation .exe, and it won't run properly.
> The second screen asks me to choose which installation of Python I'd like to
> put SciPy in.  But the field is blank, and down below in the text control
> box, there is a blinking grey cursor, but I can't type anything into the
> field.  I downloaded it again: no change.

This is a 'feature' of distutils' bdist_wininst installer: It only
displays those Python versions compatible with the installer.
Apparently the scipy guys built it for Python 2.3 (that's the current
CVS version in development).
But there is hope: If you want to install from a bdist_wininst installer
(which gives you the uninstall feature), you can build it yourself.
The most convenient way to do this is probably to use this cookbook
recipe:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/117248

Thomas