[SciPy-user] Question about Eggs and easy_install

[LUK ShunTim]

David Cournapeau wrote:
> Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>> David Cournapeau wrote:
>>   
>>> The whole problem is coming from the fact that Lorenzo installed things 
>>> in /usr. To keep things simple: never ever do that. For example, if you 
>>>     
>> On Debian/debian-derivatives the recommended way is to simply do
>>
>> easy_install --prefix=/usr/local [other args]
>>   
> /usr/local is indeed supposed to be the default path for such things 
> (that's the default path used by GNU build system, for example), and the 
> one where to install things not under the control of your distribution 
> (there is /opt, too; but I don't think it matters much which one you use).
> 
> David

Hello,

A quick and dirty way to make a (non-policy conforming) debian package 
is checkinstall. It's apt-getable.

sid
http://packages.debian.org/sid/checkinstall

Homepage
http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

I've no experience of using it with easy_install though, but it works 
well with the GNU way. Just issue "checkinstall make install" instead of 
"make install" as root and the package will be installed/managed by dpkg.

Regards,
ST
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