[Pythonmac-SIG] Python 2.5 and easy_install

[Hamish Allan]

Oops. Sorry to reply to my own post, but I have discovered that other
packages (e.g. pylons and all its dependencies) are installed fine by
easy_install. I should probably have paid more attention to the rest
of the error message:

"The package setup script has attempted to modify files on your system
that are not within the EasyInstall build area, and has been aborted.

This package cannot be safely installed by EasyInstall, and may not
support alternate installation locations even if you run its setup
script by hand.  Please inform the package's author and the EasyInstall
maintainers to find out if a fix or workaround is available."

I guess I must have installed pyx by hand (using "python setup.py
install") previously, as this works fine.

Sorry to have bothered you!

If anyone can explain why easy_install failed I would still be very
interested to know.

Best wishes,
Hamish

On Tue Feb 13 07:37:41 CET 2007, Hamish Allan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just installed Python 2.5 on my Intel OS X machine, and it seems to
> work fine. Now I need to go about installing the packages I had on
> 2.4. I downloaded ez_setup.py and it installed easy_install. However,
> when I run easy_install (the first one I tried was "easy_install pyx")
> I get:
>
> [...]
> Running PyX-0.9/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
> /tmp/easy_install-SNJlRm/PyX-0.9/egg-dist-tmp-p6tWhV
> error: Setup script exited with error: SandboxViolation:
> mkdir('/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/share',) {}
>
> If I create the directory manually, it fails at the next step:
>
> error: Setup script exited with error: SandboxViolation:
> mkdir('/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/share/pyx',)
> {}
>
> This was never a problem for 2.4 on my machine. Can I change something
> to make it work?
>
> Thanks,
> Hamish