[Pythonmac-SIG] Having trouble installing Panther python packages

[nmadnani at mac.com]

Hi Everyone

I was able to fix the problem as Robert said. Thanks so much for all 
your suggestions !!
Nitin

On Mar 24, 2005, at 8:33 PM, Robert Kern wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> On Mar 24, 2005, at 6:14 PM, Martina Oefelein wrote:
>>>> Everytime I unzip the file and install the .mpkg file, I get the 
>>>> following error:
>>>> "The InstallationCheck tool is either not exectutable or not 
>>>> readable."
>>>
>>>
>>> did you use unzip to decompress the archive? Apparently unzip 
>>> doesn't preserve "execute" rights. Try another decompressor. Stuffit 
>>> Expander seems to work fine.
>> That was stated in the question.
>> What *particularly* bothers me is that he said it STILL COMPLAINS 
>> after he *removed InstallationCheck* (I suggested this -- it is 
>> perfectly valid to do, as it is only there to disallow <= 10.2 users 
>> from attempting an install).  That is bizarre.
>
> I talked with him offlist. He didn't do the chmod on *all* of the 
> InstallationCheck's in each of the sub-packages. Doing that fixed the 
> problem.
>
> -- 
> Robert Kern
> rkern at ucsd.edu
>
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