[Pythonmac-SIG] OSX Install and Test Report

[Jack Jansen]

On zondag, oktober 27, 2002, at 12:23 , Dan Shafer wrote:

> Install went fine until I got a dialog warning me that 
> ConfigurePythonCarbon would probably fail. It did. Turns out 
> you have to be root to install this version, apparently. Once I 
> logged out and came back in as root, everything went smoothly.

You definitely shouldn't be root when installing MacPython. The 
failure you encountered isn't the one the warning message was 
about, but another failure (because of a difference in 
permissions on Jaguar).

Now that you've installed MacPython as root it may be best to 
uninstall it (remove /Applications/MacPython 2.2.2, and all 
files in /Library/CFMSupport with "python" in their name) and 
start again (as a normal user with admin privileges) once I've 
uploaded a new distribution (later today).
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